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Secular Elation · 05-18-2004, 12:58 PM

Richard Dawkins' latest, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

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Renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the �?eld 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 earth. As our pilgrimage progresses, we join with other organisms at the “rendezvous points�? where we �?nd a common ancestor. The band of pilgrims swells into a vast crowd as we join �?rst with other primates, then with other mammals, and so on back to the very �?rst 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 theory: 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 all living things.

It will be released on October 6 later this year. *drool*

Toto · 05-18-2004, 02:27 PM

Can be preordered on Amazon:

The Ancestor's Tale

(although it looks like it is not scheduled to be released until October!)

Albion · 05-18-2004, 03:37 PM

Unlike his last book, this one is being released simultaneously here and in the UK, so it isn't possible to get it sooner via the UK.

He's beginning to crank them out as fast as Gould did (although I suppose the last book was just a collection of previously written essays rather than being written from scratch). I hope the quality stays high.

Respectable Joe · 05-19-2004, 03:53 PM

My confirmation (at Amazon) indicates 7/20/04 as estimated shipping date...if that's real.

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05-18-2004, 02:27 PM	#2
Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	Can be preordered on Amazon: The Ancestor's Tale (although it looks like it is not scheduled to be released until October!)

05-18-2004, 03:37 PM	#3
Albion Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: US east coast. And www.theroyalforums.com Posts: 2,829	Unlike his last book, this one is being released simultaneously here and in the UK, so it isn't possible to get it sooner via the UK. He's beginning to crank them out as fast as Gould did (although I suppose the last book was just a collection of previously written essays rather than being written from scratch). I hope the quality stays high.

05-19-2004, 03:53 PM	#4
Respectable Joe Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Metro Denver, Colorado USA Posts: 43	My confirmation (at Amazon) indicates 7/20/04 as estimated shipping date...if that's real.

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