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  • Imagining Life’s Origins
  • The Definition of Life
  • Genesis Theories
  • Spontaneous Generation
  • Panspermia
  • The Primordial Soup Theory
  • Inventing Evolution
  • Troublesome Words
  • Descent with Modification
  • Figure 2.1
  • Descent with Modifcation
  • The Species Quagmire
  • Naming the Beasts
  • Darwin, From Man to God
  • Natural Selection: Evolution’s Engine
  • The Cult of Evolution
  • Distorting Science
  • The Myth of a Method
  • Theory Vs. Hypothesis
  • The Unscientific Method
  • The Facts of Evolution
  • To See the Invisible
  • The Plight of the Black Mouse
  • The Case of the Noxious Newts
  • Hunting the First Life
  • Fossils Incognito
  • Visions of Early Earth
  • Footprints of the First Organism
  • Volcanic Outbursts
  • To Be or Not To Be...Stromatolites
  • Primordial Soup Leftovers
  • Grade: Incomplete
  • The Recipe for Primordial Soup
  • Concocting Genetic Clues
  • Evolution’s Timepiece
  • Phylogenetics: The Guessing Game
  • Figure 5.2 Gradualism Vs. Punctuated Equilibrium
  • The Holey Trees
  • Defective Corrections
  • The Genetic Iron Curtain
  • The Maker of Mutations
  • Sexy Molecules
  • Solving the Fossil Riddle
  • Meet the Ediacarans
  • The 50-Year Mystery
  • A Precambrian Buffet
  • The Cambrian Explosion
  • Fossil Hallucinations
  • Cryptic Species
  • The First Land Animals
  • The Lazarus Effect
  • Spying on Natural Selection
  • Attack of the Cloned Bacteria
  • Bacterial Fitness in Evolution’s Gym
  • Playing God in the Lab
  • The Search for Evolution
  • Transient Change
  • The Mystery of Maladaptation
  • Separating Apes from Humans
  • The First Primates
  • Hominoid Vs. Hominid
  • The Hominin Debate
  • The Human Question
  • The Hominid Divide
  • Figure 8.4
  • Sahelanthropus tchadensis
  • X Marks the Spot
  • The First Hominid
  • Figure 8.5
  • Orrorin tugenensis
  • Reassembling Ancestry
  • The Fossil Jigsaw Puzzle
  • The Trouble with Subspecies
  • Figure 9.1
  • Ardipithecus kadabba
  • Fragmented Logic
  • Figure 9.2
  • Gigantopithecus blacki
  • The Missing Pieces
  • Figure 9.3
  • Australopithecus afarensis
  • The Mismatched Head
  • Figure 9.4
  • Kenyanthropus platyops
  • Archaic, Gracile, and Robust
  • The Human Muddle
  • Australopithecus boisei
  • Homo erectus
  • Homo habilis
  • Homo antecessor
  • Homo foresiensis
  • Biasing the Fossil Record
  • Paleo Correctness
  • Overactive Imaginations
  • Figure 10.2 Variation within a Species
  • The Missing Monographs
  • Top-Secret Fossils
  • Unanswered Questions
  • Untangling the Vines

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