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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
por Dawkins, Richard; Wong, Yan
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- Capa dura
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- ISBN 10
- 0618005838
- ISBN 13
- 9780618005833
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South Lyon, Michigan, United States
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004-01-01. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 9x6x1. Boston, 2004; white cloth covered boards; black spine; mild spine edge wear; white jacket with mild shelf wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior clean and unmarked; 673 pages. Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.
Sinopse
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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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- SKU1159070
- Título
- The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
- Autor
- Dawkins, Richard; Wong, Yan
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Like New
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0618005838
- ISBN 13
- 9780618005833
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Local de publicação
- Boston
- Data de publicação
- 2004-01-01
- Dimensão
- 9x6x1
- X weight
- 31 oz
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