《祖先的故事》是当代伟大的进化生物学家理查德·道金斯向公众传播科学的经典力作，是一部40亿年气势恢宏的人类进化史诗，被誉为珍宝级科普畅销书。
道金斯在书中描绘了一幅波澜壮阔的生命演化全景图，他以《坎特伯雷故事集》的表现手法，用近60个故事让我们与地球上现有的所有生物一起坐上时间机器，向40亿年前的远古回溯，朝拜我们共同的祖先：一路上，我们将与同时出发的其他现生生物按照亲缘关系的远近一一相会：猿人、黑猩猩、有袋类、蜥形纲、栉水母、海绵、真菌、古菌……每一次会合之后又以一个共同祖先的面貌再次启程……
这是一场以科学的准确、敏锐的洞察以及饱满的激情所完成的生命朝圣之旅：它将分子生物学和古生物学的前沿研究结果融为一炉，且近60个故事之间穿插有介绍旅途情况的开场白、展示进化谱系的路线图，以及我们共同祖先栩栩如生的复原图像。
《祖先的故事》将我们带回生命在这颗星球上起源的那一刻，它如此迷人，令人沉醉……
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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