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• Cover 
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents 
• Epigraph
• Foreword: Why People Do Not Accept Evolution
• To the Reader: Is Evolution a Threat to Your Religious Beliefs?
• Prologue: Fossils and Evolution
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Acknowledgments
• Part I. Evolution and the Fossil Record
• 1. The Nature of Science
• What Is Science?
• Science and Belief Systems
• Belly Buttons and Testability
• Natural and Supernatural
• Science, Pseudoscience, and Baloney Detection
• Follow the Evidence Wherever It May Lead
• 2. Science and Creationism
• Mything Links
• The Genesis of Genesis
• What Is Creationism?
• Twentieth-Century Creationism
• “Intelligent Design”—or “Breathtaking Inanity”?
• The Monkey Business of Creationism
• 3. The Fossil Record
• Lucky Accidents of Fossilization
• Faunal Succession or “Flood Geology”?
• The Surreal World of “Flood Geology”
• The Grand Canyon Through the Looking Glass
• Ship of Foolishness?
• Dates with Rocks
• Punk Eek, Transitional Forms, … and Quote Miners
• 4. The Evolution of Evolution
• Before Darwin
• The Evolution of Darwin
• The Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Synthesis
• Challenges to Neo-Darwinism
• Unfinished Synthesis
• Lamarck Revisited
• Neutralism, Junk DNA, and Molecular Clocks
• Macroevolution and Evo/Devo
• The Evidence of Evolution
• The Family Tree of Life
• Homology
• Vestigial Structures and Other Imperfections
• Embryology
• Biogeography
• Evolution Happens All the Time!
• 5. Systematics and Evolution
• What Is Systematics?
• What Is Taxonomy?
• Ladders, Bushes, Mosaics, and “Missing Links”
• The Cladistic Revolution
• Ancestor Worship
• The Molecular Third Dimension
• The Branching Tree of Life
• Part II. Evolution? The Fossils Say YES!
• 6. Life’s Origins
• To the Blazing Hot North Pole
• Recipe for Primordial Soup
• Mosh Pits, Fool’s Gold, Kitty Litter, Black Smokers, and Mud
• Communal Living Builds Complex Cells
• Probability and the Origin of Life
• 7. Cambrian “Explosion”—Or “Slow Fuse”?
• The Creationists’ Favorite Myth
• Step 1: Planet of the Scum
• Step 2: The Garden of Ediacara
• Step 3: The Little Shellies
• Step 4: In with a Whimper, Not a Bang
• 8. Spineless Wonders of Evolution
• Invertebrate Transitions
• The Incredible World of Microfossils
• The Story in the Seashells
• What About Macroevolution?
• 9. Fish Tales
• Show Some Backbone!
• It’s a Long Way from Amphioxus
• Jaws: The Evolutionary Story
• 10. Fish Out of Water
• The Great Leap Upward
• Lobe Fins Lead the Way
• Four on the Floor
• The “Frogamander”
• 11. Onto the Land and Back to the Sea: The Amniotes
• Innovative Eggs
• Evolution of the Great Sea Dragons
• Snakes with Legs and Hopping Crocodiles
• 12. Dinosaurs Evolve—and Fly
• Dinosaur Transitions
• Lifestyles of the Huge and Ancient
• Dinosaurs Are Alive!
• 13. Mammalian Explosion
• From Amniote to Synapsid to Mammals
• Furballs in the Age of Dinosaurs
• Radiation in the Aftermath
• Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!
• 14. Bossies and Blowholes
• Thundering Hooves
• Tiny Horses, Hornless Rhinoceroses, and Thunder Beasts
• Kingdom of Cloven Hooves
• Walking Whales
• Dumbo and the Mermaid
• 15. The Ape’s Reflection?
• The Only Transition That Really Matters
• The Truth About Human Fossils
• The Third Chimpanzee
• 16. Why Does It Matter?
• Deceit in the Name of the Lord
• Why Should We Care?
• Choices for the Future
• Bibliography
• Index