Ebook: The ancestor's tale: a pilgrimage to the dawn of evolution

A renowned biologist provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexual selection, speciation, extinction, and genetics.;Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- The conceit of hindsight -- The general prologue -- All humankind -- Archaic Homo sapiens -- Ergasts -- Habilines -- Ape-men -- Chimpanzees -- Gorillas -- Orang utans -- Gibbons -- Old world monkeys -- New world monkeys -- Tarsiers -- Lemurs, bushbabies and their kin -- The great Cretaceous catastrophe -- Colugos and tree shrews -- Rodents and rabbitkind -- Laurasiatheres -- Xenarthrans and afrotheres -- Marsupials -- Monotremes -- Mammal-like reptiles -- Sauropsids -- Amphibians -- Lungfish -- Coelacanths -- Ray-finned fish -- Sharks and their kin -- Lampreys and hagfish -- Sea Squirts -- Lancelets -- Ambulacrarians -- Protostomes -- Acoelomorph flatworms -- Cnidarians -- Ctenophores -- Placozoans -- Sponges -- Choanoflagellates -- Filastereans -- DRIPs -- Fungi -- Uncertain -- Amoebozoans -- Light harvesters and their kin -- The great historic rendezvous -- Archaea -- Eubacteria -- Canterbury -- The host's return.