- The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins, Weidenfeld & Nicolson How can we make sense of humanity’s family tree, which stretches back billions of years into the past? Richard Dawkins is the expert teller of complicated biological tales, so travel back to the first blob of an ancestor in great company.
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