The ancestor's tale : a pilgrimage to the dawn of life / Richard Dawkins ; with additional research by Yan Wong.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Phoenix, 2005.Description: xv, 685 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780753819968 (pbk.) :
- 9780753819968
- 599.938 DAW
- QH361 .D39 2005
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 599.938 DAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 218800 |
Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Illustrated, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 638-655) and index.
The cotent of hindsight -- The general prologue -- The pilgrimage begins -- All humankind -- Archaic homo sapiens -- Ergasts -- Habilines -- Ape-men -- 1.Chimpanzees -- 2.Gorillas -- 3.Orang utans -- 4.Gibbons -- 5.Old world monkeys -- 6.New world monkeys -- 7.Tarsiers -- 8.Lemurs, bushbabies and their kin -- The great cretaceuous catastrophe -- 9.Colugos and tree shrews -- 10.Rodents and rabbitkind -- 11.Laurasiattheres -- 12.Xenarthrans -- 13.Afrotheres -- 14.Marsupials -- 15.Monotremes -- 16.Sauropsids -- 17.Amphibians -- 18.Lungfish -- 19.Coelacanths -- 20.Ray-finned fish -- 21.Sharks and their kin -- 22.Lampresy and hagfish -- 23.Lancelets -- 24.Sea squirts -- 25.Ambulacrarians -- 26.Protostomes -- 27.Acoelomorph flatoworms -- 28.Cnidarians -- 29.Ctenophores -- 30.Placozoans -- 31.Sponges -- 32.Choanoflagellates -- 33.Drips -- 34.Fungi -- 35.Amoebozoans -- 36.Plants -- 37.Uncertain -- The great historic rendezvous -- 38.Archaea -- 39.Eubacteria -- Canterbury -- The host's return.
This journey through the theory of evolution begins millions of years ago, exploring the processes that have resulted in homosapiens as we know him.