LIFE ON EARTH (4,500,000,000 YEARS AGO TO THE PRESENT) Fossils From When the World Was Young

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 5
3. FOREWORD: THE PLEASURE OF RUINS 6
4. INTRODUCTION: WHEN FOSSILS BECAME LIFE 10
5. Chapter One ORGANIC REMAINS OF A FORMER WORLD 1800 –1860
6. ORGANIC REMAINS OF A FORMER WORLD 22
7. WILLIAM SMITH (1769–1839) A Layered Chronology of Fossils 34
8. MARY ANNING (1799–1847) “The Greatest Fossilist the World Ever Knew” 52
9. CHARLES DARWIN (1809–1882) Fossil Hunting in South America 70
10. Chapter Two A PRETERNATURAL SELECTION 1860–1920
11. A PRETERNATURAL SELECTION 80
12. CHARLES MARSH (1831–1899) AND EDWARD DRINKER COPE (1840–1897) The Bone Wars 96
13. CHARLES KNIGHT (1874–1953) Leaping Laelaps and its Co-stars 108
14. CHARLES WALCOTT (1850–1927) The Burgess Shale and the Cambrian Explosion 118
15. Chapter Three FROM INDIANA JONES TO IRIDIUM ANOMALY 1920–1980
16. FROM INDIANA JONES TO IRIDIUM ANOMALY 128
17. ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS (1884–1960) The Ends of the Earth 140
18. REG SPRIGG (1919–1994) AND TREVOR FORD (1925–2017) Life Before Ancient Life 154
19. MARY LEAKEY (1913–1996) Consuls, Nutcrackers, and Footprints in the Ash 162
20. LUIS AND WALTER ALVAREZ (1911–1988 AND 1940–) Did an Extraterrestrial Impact Kill the Dinosaurs? 178
21. Chapter Four THE MODERN ANCIENT 1980–PRESENT
22. THE MODERN ANCIENT 184
23. JENNY CLACK (1947–2020) Gaining Ground 194
24. KING KONG (1933) AND JURASSIC PARK (1993) Paleontology and Popcorn 204
25. YURI KHUDI (BIRTH DATE UNKNOWN, DISCOVERY IN 2007) Reawakening Mammuthus primigenius 214
26. LIFE ON EARTH (4,500,000,000 YEARS AGO TO THE PRESENT) Fossils From When the World Was Young 228
27. CREDITS 250
28. INDEX 254