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• Cover
• Title Page
• About the Author
• Other titles of interest
• Contents
• Preface
• Part 1: Origins: 4,567–444 million years ago
• 1. The First Animals and Mass Extinctions
• 2. The Cambrian Explosion and Extinctions
• 3. Ordovician Diversification and Mass Extinction
• Part 2: Mid-Palaeozoic Events: 444–252 million years ago
• 4. The Move to Land and the Late Devonian Crisis
• 5. How Global Warming Kills
• Plates 1
• Part 3: The End-Permian Mass Extinction and Triassic Recovery: 252–237 million years ago
• 6. The Greatest Crisis of All Time
• 7. Triassic Recovery
• Part 4: The Late Triassic to Jurassic: 237–145 million years ago
• 8. The Carnian Pluvial Episode and Diversification of the Dinosaurs
• 9. The End-Triassic Mass Extinction
• 10. The Universal Hyperthermal Crisis Model
• Part 5: The Cretaceous to the End of the Eocene: 145–34 million years ago
• 11. The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution
• 12. The Day the Dinosaurs Died
• Plates 2
• 13. Recovery and the Building of Modern Ecosystems
• Part 6: The Oligocene to the Present Day: 34 million years ago–
• 14. Cooling Earth
• 15. The Industrial Age
• Timeline
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Sources of Illustrations
• Index
• Copyright