A review by kb_208
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Yan Wong, Richard Dawkins

5.0

This was quite a pilgrimage indeed. The idea of a book that told of all the evolutionary steps it took to get from the beginning to human is quite a feat, but Dawkins does it justice. The difficulty about a book like this is that our knowledge of the subject is constantly changing and updating and the further back you go the less and less information we have about it. Dawkins does a good job of explaining each "rendevous" points with our common ancestors and about when these events could have taken place. Each chapter also has different stories from different organisms and how certain traits evolved and could have evolved. A lot of it was over my head, but the whole book is dense with amazing information on evolution. This book isn't for a light read, but it's worth checking out.