The Ancestor's Tale

A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life

Richard Dawkins (Autor)

Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward (Sprecher)

Audio-Cassette

2005
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (Verlag)
9780752873206 (ISBN)

Infos

A pilgrimage back through time, it provides the setting for a collection of some 40 tales. Each explores an aspect of evolutionary biology through the stories - "the Elephant Bird's Tale", "the Marsupial Mole's Tale", "the Lungfish's Tale". Together they give a deep understanding of the processes that have shaped life on Earth.

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"The Ancestor's Tale" is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims 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 Lungfish'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, and the great extinctions.

Autor

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist renowned throughout the world. He was educated at Oxford and taught zoology before becoming the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, in 1995. His previous books rank among the most influential intellectual works of our time., They include THE SELFISH GENE (1976), RIVER OUT OF EDEN (1995), and UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW (1999). Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist renowned throughout the world. He was educated at Oxford and taught zoology before becoming the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, in 1995. His previous books rank among the most influential intellectual works of our time., They include THE SELFISH GENE (1976), RIVER OUT OF EDEN (1995), and UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW (1999). TBC

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2005
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• ISBN-13: 9780752873206 / 9780752873206
• Zustand: Neuware