Foreword : Why people do not accept evolution

To the reader : Is evolution a threat to your religious beliefs?

Prologue : Fossils and evolution

Preface to the second edition

Acknowledgments

Part I. Evolution and the fossil record. The nature of science

Science and creationism

The fossil record

The evolution of evolution

Systematics and evolution

Part II. Evolution? : the fossils say yes! Life's origins

Cambrian "explosion"

or "slow fuse"?

Spineless wonders of evolution

Fish tales

Fish out of water

Onto the land and back to the sea : the amniotes

Dinosaurs evolve

and fly

Mammalian explosion

Bossies and blowholes

The ape's reflection?

Why does it matter?