the ancestor's tale

[...]... Bird's Tale 242 A MPHIBIANS 246 The Salamander's Tale 252 The Narrowmouth's Tale 261 The Axolotl's Tale 263 LUNGFISH 268 The Lungfish's Tale 269 0 COELACANTHS 272 RAY-FINNED FISH 274 The Leafy Sea Dragon's Tale 274 The Pike's Tale 278 The Mudskipper's Tale 279 The Cichlid's Tale 281 The Blind Cave Fish's Tale 288 The Flounder's Tale 290 SHARKS AND THEIR KIN 292 LAMPREYS AND HAGFISH 296 The Lamprey's Tale. .. LANCELETS 302 The Lancelet's Tale 303 SEA SQUIRTS 306 © AMBULACRARIANS 310 PROTOSTOMES 314 The Ragworm's Tale 322 The Brine Shrimp's Tale 325 The Leaf Cutter's Tale 329 The Grasshopper's Tale 331 The Fruit Fly's Tale 343 The Rotifer's Tale 352 The Barnacle's Tale 359 The Velvet Worm's Tale 362 Epilogue to the Velvet Worm's Tale 373 ACOELOMORPH FLATWORMS 380 CNIDARIANS 384 The Jellyfish's Tale 388 The Polypifer's... ENARTHRANS 178 The Armadillo's Tale 178 AFROTHERES 182 MARSUPIALS 188 The Marsupial Mole's Tale 191 MONOTREMES 194 The Duckbill's Tale 196 What the Star-Nosed Mole said to the Duckbilled Platypus 204 MAMMAL-LIKE REPTILES 207 SAUROPSIDS 214 Prologue to the Galapagos Finch's Tale 217 The Galapagos Finch's Tale 220 The Peacock's Tale 222 The Dodo's Tale 231 The Elephant Bird's Tale 235 Epilogue to the Elephant... Polypifer's Tale 390 CTENOPHORES 396 PLACOZOANS 398 SPONGES 400 The Sponge's Tale 404 CHOANOFLAGELLATES 406 The Choanoflagellate's Tale 407 DRIPs 410 FUNGI 412 AMOEBOZOANS 416 PLANTS 418 The Cauliflower's Tale 422 The Redwood's Tale 425 UNCERTAIN 434 The Mixotrich's Tale 439 THE GREAT HISTORIC RENDEZVOUS 445 ARCHAEA 448 EUBACTERIA 450 The Rhizobium's Tale 450 Taq's Tale 459 CANTERBURY 464 THE HOST'S... member of the genus has ever been found outside Africa Australo simply means southern Australia is the great southern continent, the Aurora australis is the southern equivalent of the Aurora borealis (boreal means northern), and Australopithecus was first found in south Africa, in the person of the Taung child instance) are, of course, the universes that pass on their laws and constants to their daughters... rocks in other parts of the world Once this is done, the palaeontologist can piece together the true sequence of the whole fossil record, in a jigsaw of overlapping sequences from different parts of the world The logic is complicated in practice, though not in principle, by the fact (see the Elephant Bird's Tale) that the map of the world itself changes as the ages go by Why is the jigsaw necessary?... worlds in which its ancestors survived: the food they sought; the predators they escaped; the climates they endured; the mates they beguiled The message is ultimately scripted in the DNA that fell through the succession of sieves that is natural selection When we learn to read it properly, the DNA of a dolphin may one day confirm what we already know from the telltale giveaways in its anatomy and physiology:... guarded the herds themselves while following them about From there it was a natural progression to herding them; then feeding them, and finally corralling and housing them I dare say none of these changes would have seemed revolutionary when they happened Meanwhile the animals themselves were evolving—becoming 'domesticated' by rudimentary forms of artificial selection The Darwinian consequences on the. .. innovation that has had the greatest repercussions for the rest of the world's organisms And the Cro-Magnon's Tale is about the 'Great Leap Forward', that flowering of the human mind which, in a special sense, provided a new medium for the evolutionary process itself THE PILGRIMAGE BEGINS | T] The Farmer's Tale Throughout this book I use 'primitive' in the technical sense, to mean 'more like the ancestral state'... problems In the Everett theory, the different universes don"t differ in their fundamental constants But it is the entire point of the theory we are here considering that the different universes have different fundamental constants The laws of zoological nomenclature follow strict precedence, and I fear there is no hope of changing the name Australopithecus to some- thing less confusing to the contemporary . Colugo's Tale 150 RODENTS AND RABBITKIND 152 The Mouse's Tale 155 The Beaver's Tale 157 LAURASIATHERES 162 The Hippo's Tale 165 Epilogue to the Hippo's Tale 170 The Seal's. Dodo's Tale 231 The Elephant Bird's Tale 235 Epilogue to the Elephant Bird's Tale 242 AMPHIBIANS 246 The Salamander's Tale 252 The Narrowmouth's Tale 261 The Axolotl's. Tale 263 LUNGFISH 268 The Lungfish's Tale 269 0 COELACANTHS 272 RAY-FINNED FISH 274 The Leafy Sea Dragon's Tale 274 The Pike's Tale 278 The Mudskipper's Tale 279 The