Contents
1. About This Book
2. Our Bedroom
3. Microbes
4. Protists
5. Fungi
6. Animals
7. Dry Land
8. Lichens
9. Plants
10. Arthropods on Land
11. Vertebrates
12. Amphibians
13. Proto-Mammals
14. Dinosaurs
15. Pterosaurs
16. Crocodiles
17. Birds
18. Mammals
19. From Monkeys to the Missing Link
20. The Line to Homo Sapiens
21. Neandertals
22. Why Do We Look the Way We Look?
23. The San, Formerly Known as Bushmen
24. Gaia’s Rule One: Find a Source of Energy
25. Gaia’s Rule Two: Protect Yourself
26. Gaia’s Rule Three: Reproduce
27. The Present
28. The Future
Coda
Acknowledgments
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, an anthropologist and animal behaviorist, has published thirteen previous books, including the New York Times best seller The Hidden Life of Dogs, Dreaming of Lions, The Tribe of Tiger, The Old Way, and The Hidden Life of Deer. Her most recent book is Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind, coauthored with Sy Montgomery. She lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Learn more at elizabethmarshallthomas.net.
“A skillfully written, well-informed, and accessible reverie on the
nature of life on Earth, both fascinating and highly
recommended.”—Susan Waggoner Foreword Reviews
“Life comes in countless variations, yet all are based on the same
biological principles. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas loves them
all—from lichens to fungi and from crocodiles to primates—and puts
us on a time machine to go back to the turns evolution has taken,
many of them surprising, and one of them leading to us.”—Frans de
Waal,author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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