The Ancestor's Tale

essay by Richard Dawkins
Place written_work Q1512370
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The Ancestor's Tale

Summary

The Ancestor's Tale is a written work[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (173 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Ancestor's Tale authored Richard Dawkins[3].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's instance of is recorded as written work[4].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's publisher is recorded as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt[5].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's genre is recorded as essay[6].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's follows is recorded as A Devil's Chaplain[7].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's followed by is recorded as The God Delusion[8].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[10].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's publication date is recorded as +2004-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03t9p4[12].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's Open Library ID is recorded as OL1966509W[13].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's has edition or translation is recorded as The Ancestor's Tale[14].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's has edition or translation is recorded as The Ancestor's Tale[15].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's has edition or translation is recorded as Q120913010[16].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's has edition or translation is recorded as Q120913033[17].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's main subject is recorded as evolutionary biology[18].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 11863[19].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/The-Ancestors-Tale[20].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "The Ancestor's Tale"}[21].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's OCLC work ID is recorded as 864039549[22].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's Archival Resource Key is recorded as ark:/13960/t8sb6h693[23].
  • The Ancestor's Tale's Goodreads work ID is recorded as 3135643[24].

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Designation and Status

The Ancestor's Tale's instance of is recorded as written work[4].

Why It Matters

The Ancestor's Tale ranks in the top 6% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (173 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . archive.org. Retrieved . archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] . Goodreads. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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