Map of "Darwin's voyage on the Beagle, 1831-1836" on endpapers
Contents:
part 1. Slow victory : Darwin and the rise of Darwinism -- 1. Darwin and the Beagle -- 2. "Like confessing a murder" : 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 -- part 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 -- part 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 -- part 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 -- 13. What about God?
Summary:
This dazzling companion volume to one the most important series in PBS history tells the compelling story of the theory of evolution -- from Darwin to twenty-first-century science
