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... we are not talking about subsequent mixing, only the original strand as it were.
Dawkins further confuses the matter in The Ancestor's Tale when he tells us that best evidence is that all of us are descended from a common "concestor" from Asia. He means that mixing of genes that produce the ... ... way to go on this yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_domestic_dog
For whatever it's worth, Dawkins in The Ancestor's Tale -- which I'm reading right now -- seems comfortable that domestication probably occurred multiple times in different regions (I just went back to the ... #29. I have The Selfish Gene and The Ancestor's Tale on my shelf but I don't know when I'll get to them. So many books, so little time. I'm now 3/4 of the way through The Ancestor's Tale by Dawkins. It's good. There is a lot of information to absorb which is why it's being read at a slow pace.
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas is an accessible global climate change book. Some of the scenarios are ... ... year, so I've been looking forward to his latest. I've yet to read any of Dawkin's earlier works, although a copy of his The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution at my local bookshop is proving very hard to resist!
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I continue to read How to Read ... I picked Ancestor's Tale instead of Your Inner Fish for the treatment of a similar theme, but that doesn't mean I won't read it one day. There are just so many I want to read -- I have nine books going at the same time right now!!!
The Ancestor's Tale -- Richard Dawkins
2. The Secret Histor ... ... lines everyone should read 1491,by Mann, Before the Dawn by Wade, and Maps of Time by Christian. I am really enjoying The Ancestor's Tale -- a unique way to tell the story and I'm learning a lot from Dawkins.
Let me know what you think of Children of the Ice Age I'm reading The Ancestor's Tale by Dawkins right now. He starts at the present and works his way backward on the evolutionary tree, using chapter titles that cleverly mimic Chaucer's tales. Outstanding! ... Consequences by Stephan Faris - ***½ 11/15/09
8. Trilobite by Richard Fortey **** 10/19/09
9. Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
10.Fossils: The History of Life by Richard Fortey ***** 11/15/09 ... on 'Human'. Puts it at about 200,000 years ago. Had a quick glance through The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, and the most promising reference looks to be The Origin of Humankind by Richard Leakey.
ETA: Snap! Ha Tui - the Canuckery? Perhaps a good title for my next thread?
dihiba - I have not yet read The Ancestors Tale but full intend to read all the Dawkins books. I thought The God Delusion was great, and I loved his outspoken tone.
Caut - our cabin is on the Saanich Penisula, hidden away ... Have you read The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins? (I think this would have made a great title for a historical novel). I have it on my TBR shelf (bookcase, closet, room...it's growing). ... and The Compleet Molesworth and am about halfway through Gogol's fantastic stories.
I'm also reading Richard Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale (on the train, not a FS book) and just came to a mention of Aldous Huxley's After Many a Summer, which means that tonight I will have to dig that out ... ... ) is not very user-friendly (sorry, still struggling with html), but I managed to find out that all four volumes of Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson are available via this service and maybe more VMCs if anyone is interested in checking it out. ... history books I enjoyed. I wrote a review in my 75 thread but didn't want to repeat it here. I'm still making progress with The Ancestor's Tale.
http://www.librarything.com/work/2154163/reviews ... of folks. Fun writing, comes at the question through paleontology,
comparative anatomy, and biology.
Richard Dawkins The Ancestor's Tale Don't worry, it's not The God Delusion :)
The thing that's compelling for me is how independent research and study across a wide
range of ... sjmccreary, I am enjoying the journey through time in The Ancestor's Tale. Because of the huge time span involved, Dawkins is touching on numerous hypotheses presented in evolution. He is only spending a page or two on most of them but mentioning a lot of other books on those subjects if one ... The Ancestor's Tale looks really interesting - how are you liking it so far? Well, I'm 100 pages into The Ancestor's Tale. This book is covering a lot of evolutionary subjects.
I did receive Threads From the Web of Life: Stories in Natural History by Stephen Daubert from the LT MemberGiveaway program. It came from Vanderbilt University Press. It is a new ... I'm just going to start from scratch here and see what gets read for the remainder of 2009.
1. The Ancestor's Tale, Richard Dawkins
I picked this one to start my challenge for no other reason than I bought it new when it came out and it has been sitting on my shelf ever since. I needed ... Dawkins's prejudice showed even in The Ancestor's Tale, but it was worthy reading. I hope you enjoy it or benefit from it.
I still have to make my trip; I also have a 25% coupon.
Robert ... Perhaps we are related? Ancient aavistic DNA perhaps ... LOL
rdurick -- I just got back from a trip to Borders. I got The Ancestor's Tale by Dawkins. Thanks Again!!!! ... are "the pile", they could be interrupted at
any moment, that's just what happens.
For example, picked up Richard Dawkins The Ancestor's Tale at the used book store last night, cheap. Mmmm,
evolutionary biology . . . it calls to me . . . :D ... I cannot find anything fundamentalist in his other books such as 'The Blind Watchmaker' or the really marvellous 'The Ancestor's Tale'. The phrase 'Darwinian evolution', as Lola has pointed out, is simply in contrast to, say, 'Lamarckian evolution'. It's a question of the main ... 30. The ancestor's tale by Richard Dawkins
This book has taken me quite some time to read. I started it in February but kept reading other, lighter books on the side.
It was a fascinating story which lots of interesting details. The format is based on the Canterbury tales. We go back in ... ... this one.
(Added after actually reading)
evolutionary descendants
I like the suggestion of comparing it to The Ancestor's Tale. Does Dawkins have much to say about primates? I haven't read it. He has a lot of time to cover, though before 1000 million years ago, there were ... ... There is stuff here that is new since my zoology classes in the late seventies, and I don't remember that it was all in The Ancestor's Tale. I'll finish it, but it is not rich with fact, explanation, and insight.
Robert ... rather than deep detail, but exactly the sort of thing I need to make sense of the detail.
Now I suppose I should read The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, but I am hesitant to commit to 600+ pages... ... resolutions are to make an assault on some novel cycles - A Dance to The Music of Time, The Barsetshire Chronicles or Pilgrimage for example, and to read some more dickens ... Weiner
6) Monkey Girl, Edward Humes
7) The Superorganism, Bert Holldobler & Edward O. Wilson
8) The Ancestor's Tale, Richard Dawkins
9) The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Stephen Jay Gould ... a step would be necessary to generate more complex forms of life. It is hard to say. I think Dawkin's addressed this in his The Ancestor's Tale (or in one of his books anyhow - oh I see you have that in your library. Do you remember that section or am I hallucinating it?). He presents the ... ... editions. My collection now numbers 282. I'm especially thrilled to have Diana of the Crossways and the four volumes of Pilgrimage. I finally found time to open that big box full of green-spine VMCs from my PBS friend Mary. Here is what was inside:
Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson (all four volumes)
A Deputy Was King by G.B. Stern (LT says I have the only copy catalogued)
A Death in the Life by Dorothy Salis ... (Ahem.) I was just offered all four volumes of Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson. Green covers. Free.
Now wipe that drool off your chins! ... it.
27. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
For my book club. This book is so damn depressing as an adult.
28. & 29. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
Another amazing science book. I highly recommend it as an update to Darwin.
30. Sexin ... ... case and complimented me on ‘my good book’. I didn’t have the heart to tell them I was reading Richard Dawkins The Ancestor's Tale…
... for what it's worth, the Cornish Library Service considered The Crowded Street, Millenium Hall and the four volumes of Pilgrimage worthy of preservation in their central stock. ... Mallett- E.H Young
Celia- E.H Young
Charm for the Easy Life- Kaye Gibbons
Land of Green Ginger- Winifred Holtby
Pilgrimage 1, 2, 3 & 4 - Dorothy Richardson
Today, once again in the mail, the four Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson, which I found on Abebooks and came from Australia, and One of Ours by Willa Cather.
The four Pilgrimage are practically new. Whoever owned them probably never read them.
This brings my total Virago count to 302. ... I was just reading an excerpt from The Ancestor's Tale at Google Book Search and noticed the sponsored ad at the bottom was for Expelled. Sorry for your loss, fleela. By the way, have you read "The Cichlid's Tale" from The Ancestor's Tale? Fascinating stuff. Evolutionarily quite interesting. ... Journey from the North Vol.1 autobiography of Storm Jameson.
Now I am eagerly waiting for the arrival of the four Pilgrimage. I SPLURGED!!!!!!!!
I just ordered on-line, from an Australian bookseller, the whole set of Pilgrimage (I, II, III, and IV) by Dorothy Richardson (touchstones, as usual, non cooperative...GRRR).
I already have the first one, gift from a dear friend (you know who you are) and so, even when ... Ancestor's Tale by Dawkins
If you start with humanity and work backwords down the evolutionary trail do you end up with a tail? or just a tale? ... here's what I can remember:
1. Eating for England, Nigel Slater
2. Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
3. The Ancestor's Tale, Richard Dawkins
4. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
5. The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
6. The Double Bind, Chris Bohjal ... ... a bit of an easier read - more on the history of religion than Dawkins gets into.
I have another Dawkins book to tackle - The Ancestor's Tale - better wait until my brain has nothing else to think about! How about Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage novels? And I guess Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos series would qualify. Those are two that come to mind. ... humans from another planet who have mental powers and like to beat us over th ehead with Christian ideas. The best id Pilgrimage.
Should Bored of the Rings be on the list?
Barry Hughart has written a few fantasies. The only one I remember well is Bridge of Birds, which I ... ... rds.
I didn't read much non-fiction this year, and nothing really stood out either way. The science of discworld got 4* Ancestor's tale just scrapped a 3* being the best and worst respectively.
... of Make-Believe
The Year of Living Biblically
Zeno and the Tortoise
TBR:
Dawkins's The Selfish Gene and The Ancestor's Tale
The book your church doesn't want you to read
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
The New Joy of Sex
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Pheno ... ... anything by her.
Anything in the Popular Science vein - a contradiction in terms. Stephen Hawking, for example, or Richard Dawkins or, worst of all, David Attenborough, Dickie's brother.
Anything remotely religious, or same difference, to do with money. Priests who lecture us ... ... Guide to the Galaxy
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Hobbit
Wyeth At Kuerners
The Longest Day
Beowulf
The Ancestor's Tale
The Demon-Haunted World
Naked Richard Dawkins' introduction to his book The Ancestor's Tale is a good critique of just how much stock to put in such tests. Keep in mind that the further back you go, the more ancestors you have and the smaller the genetic contribution of each individual lineage (except in cases of ... ... Williams. They were like that at the bookstore and so I jumped on the opportunity to buy them. My hardcover edition of The Ancestor's Tale is also signed by author Richard Dawkins. I ordered it from Britain and luckily I was shipped a signed copy. Been ordering British works straight ... ... him "Michael Crichton knows just enough science to do a lot of damage."
My own personal favorite is Richard Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrmage to the Dawn of Life (the American printing is subtitled "to the dawn of evolution" instead, maybe the American printers were a bit queasy ... Doug at #84 - you may find Ancestor's tale which I've just recently finished touches upon this sufficiently for you. The biology is very accesibly explained, and supports Lunar at #82 position.
Richard Dawkins isn't a social scientist, although you will find him commenting on issues that he ... ... as here, but each to their own. 24/7 togetherness would be stiflling (sp?).
We're about to go away for a week, I have Ancestor's Tale: and a re-read of Hell's Chasm to keep me occupied for a day or two, but what should I buy to fill the quiet moments for the rest of the time?
Ancestor's Tale is all that's on my list once I've finished my current Gardens of the moon, I'm not far into this yet and currently unsure whether to persue the rest of this series. The world seems good with an interesting magic, but the names are getting confusing, and so is the politics.
B ... Another of Richard Dawkin's works Ancestor's Tale is supposed ot be a rebutal of all the points often raised by fundamental religionists. I've not read it yet, but have recently bought it and will get to it soon. ... session I felt I was quite justified in buying some more new books.
I started in Borders and bought:
Cyteen, The Ancestor's Tale and Fade Away, then as I was passing a discount store on the way home I also bought Stamping Butterflies, The Osterman Weekend and Straight: Trial ... ... te.
After that it would be a bit of tour around - quite a bit of non-fiction becuase I hardly ever buy any due to price - Ancestors tale I've had my eye on for a while. And some mountaineering books, and... well quite a bit of a shop if I really had no limits imposed. ... says he has such a bad attitude, that even when you agree with him you still want to smack him. :o)
I do own The Ancestor's Tale, (shouldn't it be Tail?) and I plan on giving that a shot, one of these days. (#2) The last Dawkins book I read was The Ancestor's Tale which is probably not his best and isn't about evolutionary mechanisms. But I found some points quite thought-provoking even though I skimmed some sections. Quite an interesting slant on our "relationships" to other life-forms. ... exceptionally well written to hold my attention.
*Prods touchstones a bit... give's up*
EDIT: to add The non-fiction The Ancestor's Tale which I'm still considering.
Prods touchstones some more...got it. Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins is pretty good. David Quammen writes on the topic of Natural History quite well, I think Song of the Dodo is very interesting. Sounds really interesting. I plan to at least look at The Ancestor's Tale in a few days
PS. The grads from Liberty U. will most likely find a job in Washington DC without much trouble at all. ... Christian Science by Mark Twain and The Mummy's Congress by Heather Pringle. Also reading (for the first time) The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, which is very good, indeed, so far.
Edited to fix the touchstone for "Mummy's". ... against or difficulties with understanding evolution and de-bunks them.
I agree with the comment above about editing The Ancestor's Tale but I find his other books lean and mean thought provokers.
Hi all! I just started in on The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins. I'm only to the point of finishing the "Handyman's Tale", but it's been a fascinating read so far. I was wondering about other folks' take on it. ... Orwell's Animal Farm firmly convinced me that humans were inherently evil and that there was no hope (Nihilist faze)
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins brought what I had thought I understood about natural selection and evolution into sharp focus, and sent me firmly down the road ... I very much enjoyed The Ancestor's Tale. Thanks for the update from this author, I hadn't realized he had one coming out so soon. Added that to my Amazon cart!
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