Robin's review
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author!)
Robin's review
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author!)
Robin's review
rating:
recommended for: All human beings, and other animals if they could read
This is my favorite book in the whole world. Someday it may be eclipsed by something else but for now it's this. What I love most about this book is the number of times I found myself thinking, "Wow, I had no idea". It makes perfect sense when you think it out, but the entire premise of the book, that every living thing on earth, from human being to plant to bacteria, shares a common ancestor, that actually existed at a point sufficiently far enough in the past. The book consists of a "pilgrimage" to that ancestor modeled loosely after "The Canterbury Tales".
