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Charlie Rose with David Remnick; Richard Dawkins (September 27, 2005) $24.95 David Remnick, Editor-in-Chief of The New Yorker, on the history of catastrophe and the future of New Orleans. Also, Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins on evolution, intelligent design, and his book, The Ancestor’s Tale.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply…. |
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The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution $4.51 In The Ancestor’s Tale, Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through evolution, from present day humans back to the microbial beginnings of life four billions years ago. Throughout the journey Dawkins spins entertaining, insightful stories and sheds light on topics such as speciation, sexual selection, and extinction. The Ancestor’s Tale is at once an essential education in ev… |
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River Out Of Eden: A Darwinian View Of Life (Science Masters Series) $0.01 How did the replication bomb we call âlifeâ begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New York Times described his style as âthe sort of science writing that makes the reader feel like a geniusâ), Richard Dawkins confronts this ancient mystery…. |
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Ancestor’s Tale $284.80 “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… |
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The Ancestor’s Tale by Dawkins, Richard; Wong, Yan Edition ILL, 0 $16.95 With unparalleled wit, clarity, and intelligence, Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most renowned evolutionary biologists, has introduced countless readers to the wonders of science in works such as The Selfish Gene. Now, in The Ancestor's Tale, Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginnings of life four billion years ago. Throughout the journey Dawkins spins entertaining, insightful stories and sheds light on topics such as speciation, sexual selection, and extinction. The Ancestor's Tale is at once an essential education in evolutionary theory and a riveting read. |
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The Ancestor’s Tale by Dawkins, Richard; Wong, Yan Edition ILL, 1 $30.49 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 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 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.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 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. |
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The Ancestor`s Tale (Hardcover) $40.73 From the scientist who penned THE SELFISH GENE, this exploration of Earth`s family tree goes backward in time by a way of a series of Chaucer-like tales focusing on a variety of life forms whose ancestry converges with our own. Gradually, Dawkins guides the reader in a regress that ultimately stretches to the primal bacterium that was the ultimate ancestor of all life on this planet. THE ANCESTOR`S TALE was named a New York Times Notable Book for 2004. |
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