“The Ancestor’s Tale” is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about 6 million years in the past, gorillas at 7 million years, orang utans at 14 million years, as we stride on together, a growing band. The journey provides the setting for a collection of some 40 tales. Each explores an aspect of evolutionary biology through the stories of characters met along the way or glimpsed from afar – the “Elephant Bird’s Tale”, the “Marsupial Mole’s Tale”, the “Lungfish’s Tale”. Together they give a deep understanding of the processes that have shaped life on Earth: convergent evolution, the isolation of populations, continental drift, the great extinctions. In this blog post, you will be able to download free PDF e-book copy of The Ancestor’s Tale PDF.
The tales are interspersed with prologues detailing the journey, route maps showing joining lineages, and life-like reconstructions of our common ancestors. “The Ancestor’s Tale” represents a pilgrimage on an unimaginable scale: our goal is four billion years away, and the number of pilgrims joining us grows vast – ultimately encompassing all living creatures. At the end of the journey lies something remarkable in its simplicity and transformative power: the first, humble, replicating molecules.
Table of Contents
Below is the complete table of contents presented in The Ancestor’s Tale PDF:
1: PILGRIMAGE BEGINS
2: ALL HUMANKIND
3: 3ARCHAIC HOMO SAPIEN
4: E4RGAST
5: HA5BILINES
6: APE6-MEN
7: CHIM7PANZEES
8: GORIL8LAs
9: ORANG 9UTANS
10: OLD WOR10LD MONKEYS
11: NEW WORLD11 MONKEYS
12: TARSIERS12
13: LEMURS, BU13SHBABIES
14: THE GREAT CR14ETACEOUS CATASTROPHE COLUGOS AND TREE SHREWS
15: RODENTS AND RA15BBITKIND
16: LAURASIATHERES161
17: XENARTHRANS
18: AFROTHERES
19: MARSUPIALS
20: MONOTREMES 1
21: MAMMAL-LIKE REPTILES
22: SAUROPSIDS
23: The Lungfish’s Tale
24: COELACANTHs
25: RAY-FINNED FISH
26: The Flounder’s Tale
27: SHARKS AND THEIR KIN
28: LAMPREYS AND HAGFISH
29: LANCELETs
30: SEA SQUIRTS
31: AMBULACRARIANS
32: PROTOSTOMES
33: ACOELOMORPH FLATWORMS
34: CNIDARIANS
35: PLACOZOANS
36: SPONGEs
37: CHOANOFLAGELLATES
38: DRIPs 410 FUNG
39: AMOEBOZOANS
40: PLANTS
41: THE GREAT HISTORIC RENDEZVOUS
42: ARCHAEA
43: EUBACTERIA
44: Taq’s Tale
45: CANTERBURY
46: HOST’S RETURN
Product Details
Here are the technical specifications of The Ancestor’s Tale PDF:
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; First Edition edition (1609)
- Hardcover: 520 pages
- Publisher: Orion; First Edition edition (September 2, 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0297825038
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