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"The
Ancestor's Tale" is a pilgrimage back through time; a
journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they
converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about 6
million years in the past, gorillas at 7 million years,
orang-utans at 14 million years, as we stride on together, a
growing band. The journey provides the setting for a collection
of some 40 tales. Each explores an aspect of evolutionary
biology through the stories of characters met along the way or
glimpsed from afar - "the Elephant Bird's Tale",
"the Marsupial Mole's Tale", "the Lungfish's
Tale". Together they give a deep understanding of the
processes that have shaped life on Earth: convergent evolution,
the isolation of populations, continental drift, and the great
extinctions.
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