Slow victory: Darwin and the rise of Darwinism --
"Like confessing a murder": the origin of Origin of species --
Deep time discovered: putting dates to the history of life --
Witnessing change: genes, natural selection, and evolution in action --
Creation and destruction --
Rooting the tree of life: from life's dawn to the age of microbes --
The accidental tool kit: chance and constraints in animal evolution --
Extinction: how life ends and begins again --
Coevolution: weaving the web of life --
Doctor Darwin: disease in the age of evolutionary medicine --
Passion's logic: the evolution of sex --
Humanity's place in evolution and evolution's place in humanity --
The gossiping ape: the social roots of human evolution --
Modern life, 50,000 B.C.: the dawn of us --