Table of Contents

Preface
1. Chance, Coincidence, and Chaos
2. Between a Rock and a Hard Place
3. A Tale of Two Sites
4. Speeding Up the Pace of Evolution
5. Rebels Without a Cause
6. The Mother of Invention
7. "You Can't Always Get What You Want..."
8. Autocatalysis
9. The Beginning and the End of Evolution
Notes
Literature Cited
Index

About the Author

JEFFREY K. MCKEE teaches in the Department of Anthropology and Evolution, Ecology, & Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University. He is the co-author of Understanding Human Evolution.