Preface: A Mixture of Spirit and Deed
1. Introduction: Humboldt's Gifts
Part 1. The Making of a Theory
2. Reverend Darwin's Detour
3. Drawing a Line between Monkeys and Kangaroos
Part 2. The Loveliest Bones
6. To the Big Bang, on Horseback
7. Where the Dragon Laid Her Eggs
8. The Day the Mesozoic Died
9. Dinosaurs of a Feather
Part 3. The Natural History of Humans
11. Journey to the Stone Age
12. Clocks, Trees, and H-Bombs
Afterword: The Shape of Things to Come
Sources and Further Reading