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Richard Dawkins
The Ancestor's Tale - A Pilgrimage To The Dawn Of Life
Album UK 2005 on Orion Audio Books label
Spoken Word (Technical, Education, Audiobook)
Running time approximately 9 hours, abridged by the author. ISBN-10: 0752873210 ISBN-13: 9780752873213 The Ancestor's Tale is a pilgrimage: a journey of four billion years. We, modern human beings, are the pilgrims and we are travelling back through time to see our ancestors. Simultaneously every other living creature is setting off on its own journey with the same mission. Each pilgrim tells its tale along the way, and covers the process involved in the unfolding of life on Earth.
Musicians
 | Richard Dawkins , *1941 GB narrator, other, abridged by, album by |
 | Lalla Ward , *1951 GB narrator |
Producers
| Nicholas Jones producer |
Album Tracks
| No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Conceit Of Hindsight | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 2 | But That Was A Digression About The Physicist's Version... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 3 | Backward Chronology In Search Of Ancestors... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 4 | Given That All Backward Chronologies, No Matter Where... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 5 | We Shall Be Pilgrims, Then, Sharing Fellowship... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 6 | The General Prologue | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 7 | The Farmer's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 8 | Meanwhile The Animals Themselves Were Evolving... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 9 | While Hunting Was Sliding Into Herding... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 10 | The Cro-Magnon's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 11 | Rendezvous Zero: All Humankind | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 12 | My Reasoning Was Construced As A Reductio Ad Absurdum. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 13 | Rendezvous 1: Chimpanzees | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 14 | Rendezvous 2: Gorillas | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 15 | Rendezvous 10: Rodents and Rabbitkind | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 16 | The Mouse's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 17 | Rendezvous 11: Laurasiatheres | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 18 | All This Supposes We Believe The Testimony Of The Molecules | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 19 | Perhaps I Was Exaggerating When I Implied... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 20 | Rendezvous 12: Xenarthrans | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 21 | Rendezvous 15: Monotremes | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 22 | The Distinguished Australian Neurobiologist Jack Pettigrew... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 23 | What The Star-Nosed Mole Said To The Duckbilled Platypus | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 24 | Rendezvous 16: Sauropsids | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 25 | The Galapagos Finch's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 26 | The Dodo's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 27 | The Sad End Of The Oxford Dodo... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 28 | The Elephant Bird's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 29 | The Ratites Are A Truly Natural Group | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 30 | Is There A Coincidence Between The Times... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 31 | Rendezvous 17: Amphibians | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 32 | In Britain The Herring Gull And The Lesser Black-Backed Gull... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 33 | For Certain Purposes Names, And Discontinuous Categories... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 34 | Here's Another Example | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 35 | No Evolutionist Thinks That Modern Species Change... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 36 | Rendezvous 18: Lungfish | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 37 | Rendezvous 20: Ray-Finned Fish | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 38 | The Pike's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 39 | The Flounder's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 40 | Another Group Of Walking Teleost Fish Are The Mudskippers... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 41 | Rendezvous 26: Protostomes | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 42 | The Ragworm's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 43 | The Brine Shrimp's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 44 | The Grasshopper's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 45 | Why Do People So Readily Swallow The Apparent Contradiction... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 46 | As I Said, Zoologists Define A Species As A Group Whose Members... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 47 | What Is Not Correct Is The Inference That Race... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 48 | I Must At This Point Reiterate My Strong Objection... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 49 | In Theory, That Could Be The Full Explanation... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 50 | The Rotifer's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 51 | With One Scandalous Exception! | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 52 | To Do Justice To All The Theories Would Take A Book... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 53 | The Barnacle's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 54 | The Velvet Worm's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 55 | First. No Real Explosion | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 56 | A Mutant Animal Has A Certain Probability Of Being Better Off... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 57 | We Can, Then, With Complete Confidence, Reject The Third... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 58 | Rendezvous 27 - 33 | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 59 | The Mixotrich's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 60 | Mixotricha Paradoxa Is Not Bacterium | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 61 | The Great Historic Rendezvous | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 62 | The Green Colour Of Algae, And Of Cabbages... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 63 | Rendezvous 38 And 39 | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 64 | But Now, Finally, We Come To The Teller Of This Tale | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 65 | As It Happens, The Bacterial Flagellar Motor Itself... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 66 | As A Non Religious Person I Can Sympathetically Buttress... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 67 | Canterbury | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 68 | The Details Lie Buried, Perhaps Beyond Recovery... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 69 | A Powerful Source Of Help To A Chemical Reaction... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 70 | This Was Written In 1929, More Than 20 Years Before... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 71 | Life Depends Utterly On The Virtuoso Ability Of Enzymes... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 72 | Most Enzyme Molecules Are Special-Purpose Machines... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 73 | The Solution To The Catch-22 | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 74 | But Now I Want To Switch To A Newly Fashionable Line Of Thought... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 75 | The Host's Return | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 76 | Yes It Does. We Meet Several Natural Experiments... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 77 | We Don't Have To Rely On Geographical Separation... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 78 | Jet Propulsion May Have Evolved Twice | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 79 | Now, You See What That Means? | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 80 | What Other Patterns Or Rhymes Do We Discern...? | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 81 | My Oxford Colleague John Krebs... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 82 | And Now For The Important Point | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 83 | That's All I Want To Say About Arms Races | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 84 | I Have Never Seen Any Good Reason To Doubt The Following... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 85 | When I First Wrote About The Evolution Of Evolvability... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 86 | If We Accept The RNA World Theory... | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 87 | The Invention Of Sex Is A Major Watershed... | Richard Dawkins |
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