本书为当代最伟大的科学家之一道金斯的力作，概括了他博大精深的生命起源观。作者以旅途为背景，向我们讲述了大约40个故事，每个故事都通过对一路上所遇同伴的介绍，向人们揭示进化生物学的某一方面。故事之间穿插有介绍旅途情况的开场白，展示进化谱系的路线图，以及我们共同祖先栩栩如生的复原图像。
祖先的故事
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他们有着丰富的智慧和知晓许多有关我们祖先的故事。
They are full of wisdom and know the stories of our ancestors.
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知道一点关于你家祖先的故事，以后也可以讲给你的后人听。
Be sure to have some stories about your ancestors that you can pass on to your descendants.
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这个故事结局很悲惨，一位好医生被冠以叛国罪而处死，卡罗琳•马蒂尔德被流放到英国君主制度祖先的家乡汉诺威。
The story ended badly, with the good doctor put to death as a traitor and Caroline Mathilde exiled to Hanover, the British monarchy's ancestral home.
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And if this myth of origins were the fabrication of a later writer, then surely they would have written the story in such a way as to give their ancestors a less tenuous hold or claim, connection, to the land.
如果这个神话的开端是后世作者伪造的，那他们当然会像这样在故事中赋予其祖先较强的控制力,或者说所有权，建立其与这片土地较为紧密的联系。
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Wouldn't a later writer have cleaned up this ancestral record if this were in fact something composed at a later period? Also, he notes that the representation of inter-ethnic relationships in the patriarchal stories does not accord with the reality of a later period.
后世的作者难道不会把祖先不光彩的记录抹去吗,如果事实上这故事是后来创作的话？同时，他还提出，宗族故事中所展示的种族间关系,与后世的现实是不相一致的。
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