Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. list of Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Prologue. The Fresco and the Fossil xv
6. 1 / Pachyderms in the Catacombs 1
7. 2 / Dr. Jekyll and the Stonesfield Jaws 14
8. 3 / The Origin of Mammals 25
9. 4 / The Noblest Conquest 41
10. 5 / Terrible Horns and Heavy Feet 54
11. 6 / Mr. Megatherium versus Professor Mylodon 70
12. 7 / Fire Beasts of the Antipodes 79
13. 8 / Titans on Parade 91
14. 9 / Five-Toed Horses and Missing Links 104
15. 10 / The Invisible Dawn Man 115
16. 11 / A Bonaparte of Beasts 123
17. 12 / Love and Theory 135
18. 13 / Simpson’s Cynodont-to-Smilodon Synthesis 145
19. 14 / Shifting Ground 157
20. 15 / Dissolving Ancestries 166
21. 16 / Exploding Faunas 176
22. 17 / The Revenge of the Shell Hunters 188
23. 18 / Simpson Redivivus 198
24. 19 / Winds Thieves of the Kyzylkum 207
25. 20 / The Serpent’s Offering 216
26. 21 / Anthropoid Leapfrog 233
27. Epilogue. Cenozoic Parks 249
28. Select Bibliography 297
29. Index 315