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The Ancestor's Tale

a Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
Aug 20, 2018AaronAardvark1940 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A long book, full of detail. It’s fascinating to read, although the press of other projects left me only an hour each day to devote to it. Don’t be put off by the length. A person can glean the major points of the book through approximately 200 pages of text. Read “The Conceit of Hindsight, The General Prologue,” and “Rendezvous 0” to get an understanding of Dawkins’ goal and method. Then read all of “Rendezvous 26”. While it covers only one stop on the journey, it almost serves as a recapitulation of the entire book, in that Dawkins references most of the techniques and analyses used elsewhere in the book. His comments on religion are minimal compared with any of his works I have read, making this text non-confrontational for most readers.