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050 00 $aQH361$b.D39 2004
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100 1 $aDawkins, Richard,$d1941-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81074298
245 14 $aThe ancestor's tale :$ba pilgrimage to the dawn of evolution /$cRichard Dawkins.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin,$c2004.
300 $axii, 673 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 624-645) and index.
520 1 $a"The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own 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 our planet. As the pilgrimage progresses, we join with other organisms at the forty "rendezvous points" where we find a common ancestor. The band of pilgrims swells into a vast crowd as we join first with other primates, then with other mammals, and so on back to the first primordial organism." "The Ancestor's Tale is at once a far-reaching survey of the latest, best thinking on biology and a history of life on Earth. Here Dawkins shows us how remarkable we are, how astonishing our history, and how intimate our relationship with the rest of the living world."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103381
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003836
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm051/2004059864.html
852 00 $boff,bio$hQH361$i.D39 2004