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A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written

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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 * Guardian *
THE ANCESTOR'S TALE achieves the almost impossible: it makes biology interesting again -- Steve Jones
One of the richest accounts of evolution ever written * Financial Times *
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 * Sunday Telegraph *
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 * Daily Telegraph *

The Ancestors Tale

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      Publisher Orion Publishing Co
      Published 9 February 2017
      ISBN-13 9781474606455
      978-1474606455
      ISBN-10 1474606458
      Also in:
      Science & Nature Evolution / Evolutionary biology Popular science Science: general issues

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written

      Trade Review
      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 * Guardian *
      THE ANCESTOR'S TALE achieves the almost impossible: it makes biology interesting again -- Steve Jones
      One of the richest accounts of evolution ever written * Financial Times *
      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 * Sunday Telegraph *
      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 * Daily Telegraph *

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