pt. I. What is evolution? Clues to the past -- Deep time -- Enter Charles Darwin -- Clues in the barnyard -- Darwin's big idea -- How change happens -- Mutations + time = evolution -- Big changes = new species -- Evolution's body shop -- Common solutions for common problems -- Survival of the fittest? -- Evolutionary compromises -- What about us? -- Good enough is good enough -- pt. II. More evolution questions. How do we know that evolution happens? -- If evolution really happens, where are the transitional fossils? -- Isn't there a dinosaur still alive in Africa someplace? -- Didn't they find some human footprints together with dinosaur footprints? -- How could evolution produce something as complicated as my eyes? -- How could walking animals turn into flying animals? -- Isn't the web of life too complex to have come about through evolution? -- People make it sound like evolution explains where life came from. Is this true? -- What about religion? -- The majestic power of evolution.
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