High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ancestor`s Tale (subtitled A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life) is a 2004 popular science book by Richard Dawkins, with contributions from Dawkins` research assistant Yan Wong. It follows the path of humans backwards through evolutionary history, meeting humanity`s cousins as they converge on common ancestors. The book was nominated for the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books.