The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution -- Richard Dawkins, Paperback

The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work in this revised edition that offers a comprehensive look at evolution.

Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's tale takes us modern humans back through four billion years of life on our planet. As the pilgrimage progresses, we join with other organisms at the forty rendezvous points where we find a common ancestor. The band of pilgrims swells into a vast crowd as we join first with other primates, then with other mammals, and so on back to the first primordial organism.

Dawkins's brilliant, inventive approach allows us to view the connections between ourselves and all other life in a bracingly novel way. It also lets him shed bright new light on the most compelling aspects of evolutionary history and theory: sexual selection, speciation, convergent evolution, extinction, genetics, plate tectonics, geographical dispersal, and more.

The Ancestor's Tale is at once a far-reaching survey of the latest, best thinking on biology and a fascinating history of life on Earth. Here Dawkins shows us how remarkable we are, how astonishing our history, and how intimate our relationship with the rest of the living world.

Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 09/06/2016
Pages: 800
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 2.20d
ISBN: 9780544859937

About the Author
Richard Dawkins taught zoology at the University of California, Berkeley and Oxford University. He has been the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford since 1995. Yan Wong is an evolutionary biologist, and appears on the BBC One show BANG GOES THE THEORY.