The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
- ISBN-10
- 061861916X
- ISBN-13
- 9780618619160
- Series
- The Ancestor's Tale
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 673
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Richard Dawkins
Description
A renowned biologist provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexual selection, speciation, extinction, and genetics.
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- 2004
- 673 pages
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- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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- 2016-04-28
- 688 pages
- Paperback
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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