The Ancestor's Tale

• Ian Giddy leads a DNA-assisted tour of our evolutionary heritage, based on the book The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
  
• In this discussion, Ian will show how Dawkins tries to to trace our "most recent common ancestor" in common with a host of other species, ranging from bonobos to bacteria, with stops along the way to visits some fascinating cousins.
  

• Ian's slides
• Evolution, from UC Berkeley
• The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
• About Richard Dawkins

• Plate tectonics
• Tropical ecology