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The Conceit of Hindsight | p. 1 |
The General Prologue | p. 12 |
The Pilgrimage Begins | p. 26 |
The Farmer's Tale | p. 27 |
The Cro-Magnon's Tale | p. 35 |
All Humankind | p. 37 |
The Tasmanian's Tale | p. 41 |
Eve's Tale | p. 48 |
Archaic Homo Sapiens | p. 62 |
The Neanderthal's Tale | p. 64 |
Ergasts | p. 66 |
The Ergast's Tale | p. 71 |
Habilines | p. 75 |
The Handyman's Tale | p. 77 |
Ape-Men | p. 86 |
Little Foot's Tale | p. 90 |
Epilogue to Little Foot's Tale | p. 95 |
Chimpanzees | p. 100 |
The Bonobo's Tale | p. 104 |
Gorillas | p. 106 |
The Gorilla's Tale | p. 108 |
Orang Utans | p. 112 |
The Orang Utan's Tale | p. 115 |
Gibbons | p. 119 |
The Gibbon's Tale | p. 123 |
Old World Monkeys | p. 137 |
New World Monkeys | p. 141 |
The Howler Monkey's Tale | p. 145 |
Tarsiers | p. 156 |
Lemurs, Bushbabies and Their Kin | p. 160 |
The Aye-Aye's Tale | p. 163 |
The Great Cretaceous Catastrophe | p. 169 |
Colugos and Tree Shrews | p. 174 |
The Colugo's Tale | p. 177 |
Rodents and Rabbitkind | p. 179 |
The Mouse's Tale | p. 183 |
The Beaver's Tale | p. 186 |
Laurasiatheres | p. 192 |
The Hippo's Tale | p. 196 |
Epilogue to the Hippo's Tale | p. 202 |
The Seal's Tale | p. 203 |
Xenarthrans | p. 212 |
The Armadillo's Tale | p. 212 |
Afrotheres | p. 217 |
Marsupials | p. 223 |
The Marsupial Mole's Tale | p. 227 |
Monotremes | p. 231 |
The Duckbill's Tale | p. 235 |
What the Star-Nosed Mole Said to the Duckbilled Platypus | p. 243 |
Mammal-Like Reptiles | p. 247 |
Sauropsids | p. 254 |
Prologue to the Galapagos Finch's Tale | p. 257 |
The Galapagos Finch's Tale | p. 260 |
The Peacock's Tale | p. 263 |
The Dodo's Tale | p. 273 |
The Elephant Bird's Tale | p. 278 |
Epilogue to the Elephant Bird's Tale | p. 287 |
Amphibians | p. 293 |
The Salamander's Tale | p. 299 |
The Narrowmouth's Tale | p. 311 |
The Axolotl's Tale | p. 313 |
Lungfish | p. 320 |
The Lungfish's Tale | p. 322 |
Coelacanths | p. 325 |
Ray-Finned Fish | p. 328 |
The Leafy Sea Dragon's Tale | p. 330 |
The Pike's Tale | p. 332 |
The Mudskipper's Tale | p. 334 |
The Cichlid's Tale | p. 336 |
The Blind Cave Fish's Tale | p. 344 |
The Flounder's Tale | p. 347 |
Sharks and Their Kin | p. 349 |
Lampreys and Hagfish | p. 354 |
The Lamprey's Tale | p. 359 |
Lancelets | p. 362 |
The Lancelet's Tale | p. 364 |
Sea Squirts | p. 367 |
Ambulacrarians | p. 372 |
Protostomes | p. 377 |
The Ragworm's Tale | p. 386 |
The Brine Shrimp's Tale | p. 390 |
The Leaf Cutter's Tale | p. 395 |
The Grasshopper's Tale | p. 397 |
The Fruit Fly's Tale | p. 414 |
The Rotifer's Tale | p. 424 |
The Barnacle's Tale | p. 433 |
The Velvet Worm's Tale | p. 436 |
Epilogue to the Velvet Worm's Tale | p. 449 |
Acoelomorph Flatworms | p. 458 |
Cnidarians | p. 463 |
The Jellyfish's Tale | p. 467 |
The Polypifer's Tale | p. 469 |
Ctenophores | p. 477 |
Placozoans | p. 480 |
Sponges | p. 483 |
The Sponge's Tale | p. 486 |
Choanoflagellates | p. 488 |
The Choanoflagellate's Tale | p. 490 |
Drips | p. 493 |
Fungi | p. 497 |
Amoebozoans | p. 502 |
Plants | p. 506 |
The Cauliflower's Tale | p. 510 |
The Redwood's Tale | p. 514 |
Uncertain | p. 524 |
The Mixotrich's Tale | p. 529 |
The Great Historic Rendezvous | p. 536 |
Archaea | p. 540 |
Eubacteria | p. 543 |
The Rhizobium's Tale | p. 543 |
Taq's Tale | p. 553 |
Canterbury | p. 559 |
The Host's Return | p. 582 |
Further Reading | p. 617 |
Notes to the Phylogenies | p. 619 |
Bibliography | p. 624 |
Illustration Credits | p. 643 |
Index | p. 646 |
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