The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of EvolutionHarperCollins, 6 sept 2016 - 829 páginas The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work in this revised edition that offers a comprehensive look at evolution. 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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Rendezvous 0 | 27 |
Rendezvous 1 | 120 |
Rendezvous 2 | 137 |
Rendezvous 3 | 143 |
Rendezvous 4 | 150 |
Rendezvous 5 | 171 |
Rendezvous 6 | 175 |
Rendezvous 7 | 191 |
Rendezvous 23 | 415 |
Rendezvous 24 | 421 |
Rendezvous 25 | 426 |
Rendezvous 26 | 431 |
Rendezvous 27 | 518 |
Rendezvous 28 | 523 |
Rendezvous 29 | 537 |
Rendezvous 30 | 541 |
Rendezvous 8 | 195 |
Rendezvous 9 10 | 208 |
Rendezvous 11 | 214 |
Rendezvous 12 | 229 |
Rendezvous 13 | 249 |
Rendezvous 14 | 271 |
Rendezvous 15 | 279 |
Rendezvous 16 | 303 |
Rendezvous 17 | 338 |
Rendezvous 18 | 364 |
Rendezvous 19 | 373 |
Rendezvous 20 | 380 |
Rendezvous 21 | 400 |
Rendezvous 22 | 404 |
Rendezvous 31 | 545 |
Rendezvous 32 | 551 |
Rendezvous 33 | 556 |
Rendezvous 34 | 559 |
Rendezvous 35 | 563 |
Rendezvous 36 | 568 |
Rendezvous 37 | 571 |
Rendezvous 38 | 574 |
Rendezvous 39 | 622 |
Rendezvous 40 | 626 |
Back Matter | 701 |
Back Cover | 773 |
Spine | 774 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution Richard Dawkins Vista previa restringida - 2004 |
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution Richard Dawkins Vista previa restringida - 2004 |
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution Richard Dawkins,Yan Wong No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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