Welcome to the Ancestor’s Trail
The Ancestor’s Trail is a shared walk over the Quantock Hills in Somerset, this year taking place on the Bank Holiday weekend: 25th and 26th August 2012.
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The event was inspired by Richard Dawkins’ book “The Ancestor’s Tale- a pilgrimage to the dawn of life” and rewinds the evolutionary history of our species, and many others, back to our shared origins 3.7 billion years ago. The Ancestor’s Trail traces the same journey on foot. We align Darwin’s Tree of Life with the many footpaths straddling the Quantock hills and place groups of walkers at the tips of selected branches.
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Symbolically, as each group follows their trail, they walk further into history until, at pre-specified times, they rendezvous with the walkers following the Human trail. In this way our ever-increasing band of ‘pilgrims’ arrives together at the Dawn of Life ~ Kilve beach, appropriately famous for its fossils.
Along the trail, rendezvous points will be marked by appropriate words of wisdom, music and performance.
Many folks choose the Human Trail (13.5 miles), but there are many alternative shorter routes (some less than a mile) all detailed on our Google map.
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