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| Preamble | |
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| 51[degree]N 0[degree]E Darwin's home: Catastrophic gradualism | |
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| 51[degree]N 0[degree]W Evolution House, Kew Gardens: The Darwinian Quality Bootstrap | |
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| 51[degree]N 1[degree]E Down among the fossils: All of those chimp-human differences | |
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| 49[degree]N 2[degree]E Musee de l'Homme in Paris: The Ghost of Habitats Past | |
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| 50[degree]N 8[degree]E Bockenheim: Tracing roots back to the Big Bang | |
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| 52[degree]N 5[degree]E Layover Limbo: IQ and evolution's package deals | |
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| 22[degree]N 14[degree]E Contemplating the Sahara: Why climate can suddenly flip | |
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| 0[degree]N 22[degree]E Latitude Zero: Population fluctuations and refugia | |
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| 19[degree]S 23[degree]E Okavango Delta: The island advantage | |
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| 25[degree]S 16[degree]E Sossusvlei Dunes: Hominid opportunities in deserts? | |
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| 26[degree]S 28[degree]E Sterkfontein Caves: The big change in hominid diet | |
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| 34[degree]S 18[degree]E Cape of Good Hope: The turning point that wasn't | |
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| 1[degree]S 37[degree]E Nairobi: Creating new species from old ones | |
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| 2[degree]S 36[degree]E Olorgesailie: The easiest tool of all | |
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| 0[degree]S 36[degree]E Kariandusi: A layer cake of handaxes | |
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| 0[degree]S 36[degree]E Lake Nakuru: Where droughts cause a boom time | |
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| 1[degree]N 36[degree]E Lake Baringo: The earliest hominids | |
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| 1[degree]S 36[degree]E Lake Naivasha: Droughts even in good times | |
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| 3[degree]S 35[degree]E Olduvai Gorge: Degrees of separation | |
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| 1[degree]S 35[degree]E Maasai Mara: The Crash-Boom-Boom cycle | |
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| 20[degree]N 15[degree]E Libya by moonlight: The last big step toward humans | |
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| 52[degree]N 5[degree]E Layover Limbo (again): The Little Ice Age and its witch hunts | |
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| 56[degree]N 13[degree]E Copenhagen's ice cores: Slow ice ages and abrupt whiplashes | |
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| 56[degree]N 13[degree]E The plane where it's always noon: How ice age climate got the shakes | |
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| 60[degree]N 11[degree]E High above Oslo: The ocean has a conveyor belt | |
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| 63[degree]N 6[degree]E Out over the sinking Gulf Stream: Dan's coffee cream trick | |
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| 71[degree]N 9[degree]W Jan Mayen Island: Flushing the Gulf Stream | |
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| 72[degree]N 12[degree]W The Greenland Sea: Losing the first Panama Canal | |
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| 74[degree]N 19[degree]W Greenland fjords: What stops the conveyor | |
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| 75[degree]N 40[degree]W Atop Greenland: Why melting can cause cooling | |
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| 78[degree]N 69[degree]W Thule: Rube Goldberg cause-and-effect | |
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| 73[degree]N 95[degree]W Somerset Island: North Poles aren't what they used to be | |
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| 68[degree]N 105[degree]W Crossing the North American coast: How we might stabilize climate | |
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| 62[degree]N 114[degree]W Yellowknife, Northwest Territories: Feedbacks in the greenhouse | |
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| 49[degree]N 123[degree]W Bumpy border crossing: Managing high-risk situations | |
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| Afterthoughts | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Chapter Notes | |
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| Subject Index | |