A mixture of spirit and deed -- Introduction: Humboldt's gifts -- 1: The making of a theory -- Reverend Darwin's detour -- Drawing a line between monkeys and kangaroos -- Life imitates life -- 2: The loveliest bones -- Java man -- To the big bang, on horseback -- Where the dragon laid her eggs -- The day the mesozoic died -- Dinosaurs of a feather -- It's a fishapod! -- 3: The natural history of humans -- Journey to the Stone Age -- Clocks, trees, and H-bombs -- CSI: Neander Valley -- Afterword: the shape of things to come.
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