mildly used hardcover with dust jacket, Inscribed by Dawkins on title page. dj covers lightly scuffed, no tears, light sun fading to spine, not price-clipped, now in mylar cover. pages open a bit loosely at title page yet binding remains solid, no marks to text, boards lightly rubbed along edges otherwise clean, page edges lightly scuffed and lightly dirty.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt October 2004

Publication Date

2004

Language

English

ISBN 10

0618005838

ISBN 13

9780618005833

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st American Edition.

Printing

1st American Edition

Condition

SIGNED / VG-

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

Signed

Inscribed by Author

Seller catalogs

SCI biology / natural history

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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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