The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Richard Dawkins

Mar 2015 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward

About this audiobook

In The Ancestor's Tale, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginnings of life four billion years ago. Throughout the journey Dawkins spins entertaining, insightful stories and sheds light on topics such as speciation, sexual selection, and extinction. The Ancestor's Tale is at once an essential education in evolutionary theory and riveting in its telling.

About the author

Richard Dawkins is one of the most influential scientists of our time. The New York Times Book Review has hailed him as a writer who "'understands the issues so clearly that he forces his reader to understand them too."

Lalla Ward is an English actress, author, and illustrator who is best known for playing the part of Romana in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.