THE ANCESTOR'S TALE: A PILGRIMAGE TO THE DAWN OF EVOLUTION [Signed]

Dawkins, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0618005838 ISBN 13: 9780618005833

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2004

Language: English

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Octavo, 673 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine off-white with black and red lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$8.00." Minor general shelf wear. Slight bumping to bottom corner of rear board. Signed flat by Dawkins on title page. Shelved in Science: Evolution. 1396448. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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THE ANCESTOR'S TALE: A PILGRIMAGE TO THE DAWN OF EVOLUTION [Signed]

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston

Publication Date

2004

Language

English

ISBN 10

0618005838

ISBN 13

9780618005833

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Hardcover

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A renowned scientist and author of The Selfish Gene provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexual selection, speciation, convergent evolution, extinction, genetics, plate tectonics, geographical disperal, and other topics.

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Richard Dawkins taught zoology at the University of California at Berkeley and at Oxford University and is now the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position he has held since 1995. Among his previous books are The Ancestor�s Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, and A Devil�s Chaplain. Dawkins lives in Oxford with his wife, the actress and artist Lalla Ward.

Richard Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.

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