“A new form of science as literature” is how reviewer Mark Pagel described Richard Dawkins’s The Ancestor’s Tale, which is now out in paperback (Phoenix, £9.99). He relished its subtle insights of scientific understanding – part poetry, part science – in service of the big idea that is evolutionary history. Particularly good reading right now as an antidote to the poisonous notion that a matter of faith or belief – intelligent design – could be treated as science.
Life
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
31 August 2005
