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Dawkins explained that his book 'The Ancestor's Tale' is a history of life, but told in reverse chronological order. He said that this approach avoids the human-centric perspective of evolution and emphasizes that humans are not the 'climax' of evolution.
I'm up to 2004, The Ancestor's Tale.
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Episode: Darwin’s Daring Idea with Richard Dawkins
Dawkins explained that his book 'The Ancestor's Tale' is a history of life, but told in reverse chronological order. He said that this approach avoids the human-centric perspective of evolution and emphasizes that humans are not the 'climax' of evolution.
I'm up to 2004, The Ancestor's Tale.
That is a title that reminds me of the Sagan book, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
It kind of feels the same to me.
Well, it's a reference to Chaucer, the Canterbury Tales.
But one of his tales was not The Ancestor.
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The book was referenced as a source of information regarding the evolutionary lineage of humans and other organisms, illustrated through the metaphor of a human chain.
in the case I'm fascinated by the mosquitoes in the London Underground...this is where a new species is becoming right before our eyes...like from the ancestors tale kind of thing