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The ancestor's tale : a pilgrimage to the dawn of evolution
Dawkins, Richard
Adult Nonfiction 576.8 D
Dawkins, Richard
Adult Nonfiction 576.8 D
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| Contents | Page |
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| The Conceit of Hindsight | p. 1 |
| The General Prologue | p. 12 |
| The Pilgrimage Begins | p. 26 |
| The Farmer's Tale | p. 27 |
| The Cro-Magnon's Tale | p. 35 |
| Rendezvous 0 - | |
| All Humankind | p. 37 |
| The Tasmanian's Tale | p. 41 |
| Eve's Tale | p. 48 |
| Archaic Homo Sapiens | p. 62 |
| The Neanderthal's Tale | p. 64 |
| Ergasts | p. 66 |
| The Ergast's Tale | p. 71 |
| Habilines | p. 75 |
| The Handyman's Tale | p. 77 |
| Ape-Men | p. 86 |
| Little Foot's Tale | p. 90 |
| Epilogue to Little Foot's Tale | p. 95 |
| Rendezvous 1 - | |
| Chimpanzees | p. 100 |
| The Bonobo's Tale | p. 104 |
| Rendezvous 2 - | |
| Gorillas | p. 106 |
| The Gorilla's Tale | p. 108 |
| Rendezvous 3 - | |
| Orang Utans | p. 112 |
| The Orang Utan's Tale | p. 115 |
| Rendezvous 4 - | |
| Gibbons | p. 119 |
| The Gibbon's Tale | p. 123 |
| Rendezvous 5 - | |
| Old World Monkeys | p. 137 |
| Rendezvous 6 - | |
| New World Monkeys | p. 141 |
| The Howler Monkey's Tale | p. 145 |
| Rendezvous 7 - | |
| Tarsiers | p. 156 |
| Rendezvous 8 - | |
| Lemurs, Bushbabies and Their Kin | p. 160 |
| The Aye-Aye's Tale | p. 163 |
| The Great Cretaceous Catastrophe | p. 169 |
| Rendezvous 9 - | |
| Colugos and Tree Shrews | p. 174 |
| The Colugo's Tale | p. 177 |
| Rendezvous 10 - | |
| Rodents and Rabbitkind | p. 179 |
| The Mouse's Tale | p. 183 |
| The Beaver's Tale | p. 186 |
| Rendezvous 11 - | |
| Laurasiatheres | p. 192 |
| The Hippo's Tale | p. 196 |
| Epilogue to the Hippo's Tale | p. 202 |
| The Seal's Tale | p. 203 |
| Rendezvous 12 - | |
| Xenarthrans | p. 212 |
| The Armadillo's Tale | p. 212 |
| Rendezvous 13 - | |
| Afrotheres | p. 217 |
| Rendezvous 14 - | |
| Marsupials | p. 223 |
| The Marsupial Mole's Tale | p. 227 |
| Rendezvous 15 - | |
| Monotremes | p. 231 |
| The Duckbill's Tale | p. 235 |
| What the Star-Nosed Mole Said to the Duckbilled Platypus | p. 243 |
| Mammal-Like Reptiles | p. 247 |
| Rendezvous 16 - | |
| Sauropsids | p. 254 |
| Prologue to the Galapagos Finch's Tale | p. 257 |
| The Galapagos Finch's Tale | p. 260 |
| The Peacock's Tale | p. 263 |
| The Dodo's Tale | p. 273 |
| The Elephant Bird's Tale | p. 278 |
| Epilogue to the Elephant Bird's Tale | p. 287 |
| Rendezvous 17 - | |
| Amphibians | p. 293 |
| The Salamander's Tale | p. 299 |
| The Narrowmouth's Tale | p. 311 |
| The Axolotl's Tale | p. 313 |
| Rendezvous 18 - | |
| Lungfish | p. 320 |
| The Lungfish's Tale | p. 322 |
| Rendezvous 19 - | |
| Coelacanths | p. 325 |
| Rendezvous 20 - | |
| Ray-Finned Fish | p. 328 |
| The Leafy Sea Dragon's Tale | p. 330 |
| The Pike's Tale | p. 332 |
| The Mudskipper's Tale | p. 334 |
| The Cichlid's Tale | p. 336 |
| The Blind Cave Fish's Tale | p. 344 |
| The Flounder's Tale | p. 347 |
| Rendezvous 21 - | |
| Sharks and Their Kin | p. 349 |
| Rendezvous 22 - | |
| Lampreys and Hagfish | p. 354 |
| The Lamprey's Tale | p. 359 |
| Rendezvous 23 - | |
| Lancelets | p. 362 |
| The Lancelet's Tale | p. 364 |
| Rendezvous 24 - | |
| Sea Squirts | p. 367 |
| Rendezvous 25 - | |
| Ambulacrarians | p. 372 |
| Rendezvous 26 - | |
| Protostomes | p. 377 |
| The Ragworm's Tale | p. 386 |
| The Brine Shrimp's Tale | p. 390 |
| The Leaf Cutter's Tale | p. 395 |
| The Grasshopper's Tale | p. 397 |
| The Fruit Fly's Tale | p. 414 |
| The Rotifer's Tale | p. 424 |
| The Barnacle's Tale | p. 433 |
| The Velvet Worm's Tale | p. 436 |
| Epilogue to the Velvet Worm's Tale | p. 449 |
| Rendezvous 27 - | |
| Acoelomorph Flatworms | p. 458 |
| Rendezvous 28 - | |
| Cnidarians | p. 463 |
| The Jellyfish's Tale | p. 467 |
| The Polypifer's Tale | p. 469 |
| Rendezvous 29 - | |
| Ctenophores | p. 477 |
| Rendezvous 30 - | |
| Placozoans | p. 480 |
| Rendezvous 31 - | |
| Sponges | p. 483 |
| The Sponge's Tale | p. 486 |
| Rendezvous 32 - | |
| Choanoflagellates | p. 488 |
| The Choanoflagellate's Tale | p. 490 |
| Rendezvous 33 - | |
| Drips | p. 493 |
| Rendezvous 34 - | |
| Fungi | p. 497 |
| Rendezvous 35 - | |
| Amoebozoans | p. 502 |
| Rendezvous 36 - | |
| Plants | p. 506 |
| The Cauliflower's Tale | p. 510 |
| The Redwood's Tale | p. 514 |
| Rendezvous 37 - | |
| Uncertain | p. 524 |
| The Mixotrich's Tale | p. 529 |
| The Great Historic Rendezvous | p. 536 |
| Rendezvous 38 - | |
| Archaea | p. 540 |
| Rendezvous 39 - | |
| Eubacteria | p. 543 |
| The Rhizobium's Tale | p. 543 |
| Taq's Tale | p. 553 |
| Canterbury | p. 559 |
| The Host's Return | p. 582 |
| Further Reading | p. 617 |
| Notes to the Phylogenies | p. 619 |
| Bibliography | p. 624 |
| Illustration Credits | p. 643 |
| Index | p. 646 |
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