the-ancestors-tale.md

The Ancestor's Tale

by Richard Dawkins

• The Farmer's Tale describes the Neolithic Revolution
• The Cro-Magnon's Tale describes the Great Leap Forward
• The Tasmanian's Tale illustrates the identical ancestor's point
• Eve's Tale touches upon coalescent theory, Mitochondrial Eve, Y-chomosomal Adam, and polymorphism
• The Ergast's Tale recounts how a mutated form of the FOXP2 gene could have allowed Homo ergaster to acquire language
• The Handyman's Tale explains how Homo habilis acquired high "brain to body mass ratio"
• Little Foot's Tale examines how hominid first learned how to walk on two legs