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| Preface | |
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| The Origin of Life on Earth | |
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| How Geology Works | |
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| How Paleontology Works | |
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| The Origin of Life | |
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| Where Did Life Evolve? | |
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| Energy Sources for the First Life | |
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| Earth's Earliest Life | |
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| How Do We Know the Age of a Fossil? | |
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| Life Alters a Planet | |
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| Earth's Oldest Rocks | |
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| Earth's Oldest Cells | |
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| Earth's Early Atmosphere and Climate | |
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| Banded Iron Formations | |
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| The Oxygen Revolution | |
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| Sex and Nuclei: Eukaryotes | |
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| Symbiosis and Endosymbiosis | |
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| Eukaryotes in the Fossil Record | |
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| Evolution and Natural Selection | |
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| The Evolution of Sex | |
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| The Classification of Eukaryotes | |
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| Cladistics | |
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| The Evolution of Metazoans | |
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| Proterozoic Protists | |
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| Evolving Metazoans from Protists | |
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| Evolution and Development in Metazoans | |
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| The Variety of Metazoans | |
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| Snowball or Slushball Earth | |
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| The Cambrian Explosion | |
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| Ediacaran (Vendian) Animals | |
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| The Evolution of Skeletons | |
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| The Burgess Fauna | |
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| Solving the Cambrian Explosion | |
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| Changing Life in a Changing World | |
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| Diversity Patterns in the Fossil Record | |
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| Global Tectonics and Global Diversity | |
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| Changing Faunas Through Time | |
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| Increase in Global Diversity | |
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| Extinction and Mass Extinctions | |
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| The Permo-Triassic (P-T) Extinction | |
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| Evolutionary Radiations | |
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| The Early Vertebrates | |
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| Vertebrate Origins | |
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| The Evolution of Jaws | |
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| Bony Fishes | |
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| Leaving the Water | |
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| The Origin of Land Plants | |
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| The Earliest Land Floras | |
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| Comparing Plant and Animal Evolution | |
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| The First Land Animals | |
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| Air Breathing | |
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| Limbs and Feet: Why Become Tetrapod? | |
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| The First Tetrapods | |
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| Tetrapods and Amniotes | |
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| Early Tetrapods | |
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| Amniotes and Amniota | |
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| Carboniferous Land Ecology | |
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| Early Amniotes and Thermoregulation | |
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| The Amniote Radiation | |
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| Pelycosaurs | |
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| Pelycosaur Biology and Ecology | |
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| Vegetarian Pelycosaurs | |
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| How Does Herbivory Evolve in Tetrapods? | |
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| Thermoregulation in Living Reptiles | |
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| Permian Changes | |
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| The Invasion of Gondwana | |
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| Therapsid Evolution | |
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| The Triassic Takeover | |
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| Diapsids | |
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| The Triassic Diapsid Takeover: The Pattern | |
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| Respiration, Metabolism, and Locomotion | |
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| Rhynchosaurs | |
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| Locomotion and Triassic Archosauromorphs | |
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| Dinosaur Ancestors | |
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| Dinosaurs | |
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| Theropods | |
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| Ornithischians | |
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| Sauropodomorphs | |
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| Dinosaur Paleobiology: Life at Large Size | |
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| Dinosaur Behavior | |
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| Dinosaur Eggs and Nests | |
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| Were Dinosaurs Warmblooded? | |
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| Dinosaurs with Feathers | |
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| Doubts about Endothermy? | |
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| The Evolution of Flight | |
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| Flight in Insects | |
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| Parachuting Vertebrates | |
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| Pterosaurs | |
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| Birds | |
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| Bats | |
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| The Modernization of Land and Sea | |
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| Mesozoic Ocean Ecosystems | |
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| The Modernization of Land Plants | |
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| Mesozoic Plants and Pollination | |
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| Mesozoic Plants and Seed Dispersal | |
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| Angiosperms and Mesozoic Ecology | |
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| The Origin of Mammals | |
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| Evolving Mammalian Characters | |
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| Mammalian Reproduction | |
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| Early Mammals | |
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| Therian Mammals | |
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| The Inferiority of Mammals | |
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| The End of the Dinosaurs | |
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| An Asteroid or Cometary Impact? | |
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| A Giant Volcanic Eruption? | |
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| Did a Catastrophe Cause the Extinctions? | |
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| Paleontological Evidence From the K-T Boundary | |
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| Cenozoic Mammals: Origins, Guilds, and Trends | |
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| The Evolution of Cenozoic Mammals | |
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| Ecological Replacement: The Guild Concept | |
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| The Savanna Story | |
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| Evolution by Improvement | |
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| Geography and Evolution | |
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| Australia | |
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| New Zealand | |
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| South America | |
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| Africa | |
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| Islands and Biogeography | |
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| Primates | |
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| The Living Prosimians | |
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| Earliest Primates | |
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| The Origin of Anthropoids | |
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| Emergence of the Hominoids | |
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| Evolving Toward Humans | |
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| Australopithecines | |
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| The Appearance (or Not) of Homo | |
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| Homo erectus: the First "Real" Homo? | |
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| The Origin of Homo sapiens | |
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| The Neanderthals | |
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| Evolution Among Humans Today | |
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| Life in the Ice Age | |
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| Ice Ages and Climatic Change | |
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| The Present Ice Age | |
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| Life and Climate in the Ice Ages | |
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| Continental Changes | |
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| The Americas | |
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| Australia | |
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| Island Extinctions | |
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| Experienced Faunas | |
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| The World Today | |
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| Index | |