The Ancestor's Tale is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about 6 million years in the past, gorillas at 7 million years, orang-utans at 14 million years, as we stride on together, a growing band. The journey provides the setting for a collection of some 40 tales. Each explores an aspect of evolutionary biology through the stories of characters met along the way or glimpsed from afar - the Elephant Bird's Tale, the Marsupial Mole's Tale, the Lungfish's Tale. Together they give a deep understanding of the processes that have shaped life on Earth: convergent evolution, the isolation of populations, continental drift, the great extinctions. The tales are interspersed with prologues detailing the journey, route maps showing joining lineages, and life-like reconstructions of our common ancestors. The Ancestor's Game represents a pilgrimage on an unimaginable scale: our goal is four billion years away, and the number of pilgrims joining us grows vast - ultimately encompassing all living creatures. At the end of the journey lies something remarkable in its simplicity and transformative power: the first, humble, replicating molecules.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Orion Publishing Group
ISBN-13
9780752873213
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27046607118
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Ancestor's Tale: a Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life
Author
Richard Dawkins
Format
Audio CD
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Run Time
540 Mins
Dimensions
Item Height
135mm
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
248g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Richard Dawkins
Subject
Science, Biology
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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