The Ancestor's Tale (Signed 1st Edition)

Richard Dawkins

ISBN 10: 0297825038 / ISBN 13: 9780297825036

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004

Blue boards with silver titles to the spine. Clean Pages. Firm binding. Jacket is not price clipped. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. A heavy book so there will be extra postage for overseas buyers. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers. Seller Inventory # 17946

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Ancestor's Tale (Signed 1st Edition)
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed By Author
Edition: 1st Edition.