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Audio book : Richard Dawkins - The Ancestors Tale
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Audio > Audio books
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20
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122.92 MB

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English
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Audio book Richard Dawkins The ancestors tale
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Dec 12, 2008
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LetThemEatCake



Book Description
The Ancestor's Tale is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims along the route 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 Coelacanth'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 Tale 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. 

 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0752873210/

Comments

thank you! I've really been looking for this one!!
The audiobook "The Greatest Show on Earth" is fantastic as well... He explains things clearly and thoroughly, and shows that he has great enthusiasm and reverence for the topic.

Highly recommend ALL of his books/audiobooks.
Thanks, I've bought all Dawkins books but audio is the icing on the cake!