THE ANCESTOR'S TALE: A PILGRIMAGE TO THE DAWN OF LIFE. (SIGNED)

DAWKINS, Richard.

ISBN 10: 0297825038 / ISBN 13: 9780297825036

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, London,, 2004

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First Edition. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. Original publishers black cloth, lettered silver at the spine. This book is very heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. Signed by the author on a publishers label fixed to the title page. ISBN: 0297825038 Pages: 520 Fine in fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE ANCESTOR'S TALE: A PILGRIMAGE TO THE DAWN OF LIFE. (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, London,
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297825038
• ISBN 13: 9780297825036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signedes
• Seller catalogs:
  • evolution

About this title

Synopsis

The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own provocative views. 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 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.

About the Author

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist renowned throughout the world. He was educated at Oxford where he did his doctorate under the nobel-prize winning ethologist Niko Tinbergen. From 1967-1969 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkley. Since 1995 he has been Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His books rank among the most influential intellectual works of our time.