This book will change the way you think about life, sex, racism, reproduction, and the animal kingdom. Dawkins takes a backwards step from today to the beginning of life on earth a little bit at a time, describing how changes in evolution that created what we are today.
Here's a consciousness raising fact. We are all the product of winners. All of our ancestors were winners because they all succeeded in passing down their genes to the next generation. None of us have any ancestors who were failures, because if they failed, they wouldn't be our ancestors.
If you're poor you can download the audiobook here for free. It's elegantly done by Richard Dawkins and his wife Lalla Ward. If you can afford it, pick it up. My own copy is in the mail right now from Amazon.
2 comments:
Sounds interesting. But it would be suicide for me to try to balance reading that in with everything else I have to be doing at the present time! I've heard that that book and The Selfish Gene are really good stuff. Shame that people only think of Dawkins of "that damn dirty strident militant atheist!1!!". Oh well...that's what happens when you don't endlessly cater to the religious.
It is also my opinion that The Ancestor's Tale is one of the most fascinating books! Richard Dawkins has produced some great stuff, The God Delusion and the Selfish Gene alike! But The Ancestor's tale may top the list.
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