From the Book - First edition.
pt. 1. Slow victory : Darwin and the rise of Darwinism --
1. Darwin and the Beagle --
2. "Like confessing amurder" : the origin of Origin of species --
3. Deep time discovered : putting dates to the history of life --
4. Witnessing change : genes, natural selection, and evolution in action --
pt. 2. Creation and destruction --
5. Rooting the tree of life : from life's dawn to the age of microbes --
6. The accidental tool kit : chance and constraints in animal evolution --
7. Extinction : how life ends and begins again --
pt. 3. Evolution's dance --
8. Coevolution : weaving the web of life --
9. Doctor Darwin : disease in the age of evolutionary medicine --
10. Passion's logic : the evolution of sex --
pt. 4. Humanity's place in evolution and evolution's place in humanity --
11. The gossiping ape : the social roots of human evolution --
12. Modern life, 50,000 B.C. : the dawn of us --