A review by taxideadaisy
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins

2.0

I wish I could have had a better experience with this book. Having looked at some other reader reviews, it's clear that I'm not the only person who has found Dawkins to be arrogant, condescending, and rude regarding religion and similar philosophic topics. The premise of this book is very clever. It starts off well! But the rate and length of his snarky asides about religion completely ruined the book for me. I plugged along for a while trying to ignore them, rather the way readers may skim long descriptive passages in some genres, but finally I just gave up. The man may be a genius, but he's also an arrogant jerk.