In The Ancestor‘s Tale, Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong set off on a journey backwards in evolution. They see themselves as the pilgrims in Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales, in their case, each journey resulting in a tale about an aspect of evolution in the „shared archaen goal, our Canterbury“. Oxygen and carbon dioxide feature along the way and the travellers have some enlightening information about cyanobacteria and a word of warning about fossil fuel. Read More
„The net effect is to store energy“
