Prologue v
PART ONE THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING FOSSILS
1 Darwin's Nemesis
3(23)
2 The Burgess Bestiary
26(24)
3 Soft Bodies and Hard Facts
50(27)
4 The Not Missing Fossils?
77(21)
5 The Genes Tell the Story?
98(16)
6 The Animal Tree of Life
114(22)
7 Punk Eek!
136(19)
PART TWO HOW TO BUILD AN ANIMAL
8 The Cambrian Information Explosion
155(14)
9 Combinatorial Inflation
169(16)
10 The Origin of Genes and Proteins
185(24)
11 Assume a Gene
209(21)
12 Complex Adaptations and the Neo-Darwinian Math
230(25)
13 The Origin of Body Plans
255(16)
14 The Epigenetic Revolution
271(20)
PART THREE AFTER DARWIN, WHAT?
15 The Post-Darwinian World and Self-Organization
291(20)
16 Other Post-Neo-Darwinian Models
311(25)
17 The Possibility of Intelligent Design
336(17)
18 Signs of Design in the Cambrian Explosion
353(29)
19 The Rules of Science
382(22)
20 What's at Stake
404(10)
Acknowledgments 414(1)
Notes 415(39)
Bibliography 454(27)
Credits and Permissions 481(7)
Index 488