Machine generated contents note: PART I SLOW VICTORY: DARWIN AND THE RISE OF DARWINISM
T * Darwin and the Beagle 3
2 * "Like Confessing a Murder": The Origin of Origin of Species 27
3 * Deep Time Discovered: Putting Dates to the History of Life 57
4 * Witnessing Change: Genes, Natural Selection, and Evolution in Action 73
PART 2 CREATION AND DESTRUCTION
5 * RootingtheTree ofLife: From Life's DawntotheAgeof Microbes 101
6 TheAccidental Tool Kit: Chance and Constraints in Animal Evolution 117
7 Extinction: How Life Ends and Begins Again 143
8 * Coevolution:WeavingtheWebofLife 189
9 * Doctor Darwin: Disease in the Age of Evolutionary Medicine 211
10 * Passion's Logic: The Evoluion of Sex 229
PART 4 HUMANITY'S PLACE IN EVOLUTION AND
EVOLUTION'S PLACE IN HUMANITY
11 * The Gossiping Ape: The Social Roots of Human Evolution 259
12 * Modern Life, 50o,oo000 .c.: The Dawn of Us 293