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The Ancestor's Tale

A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life

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The Ancestor's Tale

Yazan: Richard Dawkins, Yan Wong
Seslendiren: Lalla Ward, Richard Dawkins
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A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written.

'Extraordinarily detailed, serious and engaging' Daily Mail
'One of the richest accounts of evolution ever' Financial Times
'Dizzying . . . fresh, exhilarating' Daily Telegraph

The Ancestor's Tale is a dazzling, four-billion-year pilgrimage to the origins of us all. Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong take us on an exhilarating reverse journey through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginnings of life. It is a journey happily interrupted by meetings of fellow modern animals (as well as plants, fungi and bacteria) similarly tracing their evolutionary path back through history. As each evolutionary pilgrim tells their tale, Dawkins and Wong shed light on topics such as speciation, sexual selection and extinction.

Written with unparalleled wit, clarity and intelligence, taking in new scientific discoveries of the past decade and including new 'tales', illustrations and fractal diagrams, The Ancestor's Tale shows us just how remarkable we are.

'A new chronicle of life, wonderfully illustrated, from this great evolutionist' Economist

'The result is not just a wealth of ideas about how living things evolved, but a strong sense of the urgency and absorption with which science is done' Independent

'The Ancestor's Tale achieves the almost impossible: it makes biology . . . interesting again' Lancet

'This is epic stuff indeed and Mr Dawkins carries it off with triumphant skill, never sacrificing the complexity of his argument to the voracious god of dumbing down' Wall Street Journal

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'[An] eminently readable book, fizzing with evidence, anecdote, theories and speculation' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'These essays are marvels of wit and models of scientific integrity' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'If this is the only pilgrimage you undertake during your lifetime, I'm sure you will find it a most rewarding one' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐©2003 Richard Dawkins Biological Sciences Biology Evolution Evolution & Genetics Genetics Science Doğa Tarihi Düşündürücü Paleontoloji Fil
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In this extraordinary book, Dawkins turns chronicler. He does so with a clever twist that avoids the perennial problem of evolutionary history-telling ... As a contribution to the history of ideas this book is well worthy of Britain's top public intellectual. The arguments are as sharply honed as we have come to expect from Dawkins (Matt Ridley)
THE ANCESTOR'S TALE achieves the almost impossible: it makes biology interesting again (Steve Jones)
One of the richest accounts of evolution ever written
Should be given to all young persons starting out on their exploration of the world. It will excite their curiosity and awe and prove to them that the world is inexhaustible in its fascination
No other book I have read has given me such a dizzyingly immediate sense of the vastness and strangeness of the changes brought about by evolution over the eons, or how intimately all life is bound together ... THE ANCESTOR'S TALE makes you feel you have seen the world in a fresh, exhilarating way (Robert Hanks)
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Loved listening to the book. Authors ability to convince and his knowledge is inspiring.

Superb book

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With talent and style, R Dawkins leads us through the maze of ancestry, origins, confraternity between the species, and places all this information in the context of the universe, which he also explains with consumate care and seeming ease for those of us who are not scientists of any kind.
It is book to listen to time and again, whose depths mirror those of the very universe he helps us to envisage. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

an intelligible tale

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Definitely. All Dawkins books open your eyes that little bit more

Any additional comments?

Simply must read them all

Understanding the world makes it more wonderful

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Catapulting backwards through time, with a cast of characters from Apes, to Anemones, and Amoebas, this book is a must listen for anyone with even a passing interest in the natural world, and required reading for all budding biologists.

Narrated masterfully by Dawkins and Ward, engaing, well paced and never patronising the pilgrimage winds its way through the millenia, illuminating here, clarifying there, and always leaving open the door for futher exploration. The smaller the ancestor the larger the sense of wonder at what has been discovered and how much work is left to be done.

This book will make you appreciate the natural world and our place in it as humans, without ever belittling or browbeating. Calmly confounding counterarguments and admiting that what the authors know they dont know, with a little more work, it might be possible to find out.

Adventure story masquerading as a text book

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The Ancestors Tale is a treasure chest of amazing accounts. Like the duck billed platypus, mocked for its bill, which is in fact is a stunning piece of technology, resembling AWAKS radar - it is an electro and pressure sensor laden probe for detecting minuscule muscle movements of prey in muddy water. Or the Hippo ancestors tale, from the middle of which lineage sprang all Whales, making Hippos closer to Whales than to any land animals. We puzzle together in the flatworms tale about the unlikely origins of sex, and with it the male gender, or gawp at the psychedelic bizarreness of the Velvet worm "Hallucigenia" and the significance of the "Cambrian Explosion".

Dawkins corrects from the start the anthropocentric notion we have of ourselves as the pinnacle of Evolution. There is only one pinnacle, and that is at the origin of life, where all divergent species come together. The "Concestor" of all life. We look at the theory of RNA world, in speculating about the first replicators in the primordial soup.

Dawkins is probably the UKs best known atheist, but whereas his theology is to me the steel and concrete of a modernist tower block, his evolutionary accounts are glittering diamonds, sparkling with vivid colour. And, I begin to understand, for this is his religion, beside which traditional religion looks tawdry, dull and unimaginative.

This book is Dawkins pilgrimage, in which we join him, like Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims, going back in time, through the wonders of our common ancestry to meet and hear the ancestor's tales. Perhaps it would have been better unabridged, but only because we would hear more.

Finally, I love the intimacy of the narration, alternating between Richard and his wife Lalla Ward, their telling fantastically bringing the text to life. I cannot praise this book enough, if you have any sense of the wonder of life... Go travel back in time with them, and meet our common ancestry - I promise you will not regret it.

A Pilgrimage Sparkling with Delights.

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