Part I: What Evolution Is.

Chapter 1: What Evolution Is and Why You Need to Know.

Chapter 2: The Science — Past and Present — of Evolution.

Chapter 3: Getting into Your Genes: (Very) Basic Genetics.

Part II: How Evolution Works.

Chapter 4: Variation: A Key Requirement for Evolution.

Chapter 5: Natural Selection and Adaptations in Action.

Chapter 6: Random Evolution and Genetic Drift: Sometimes It’s All about Chance.

Chapter 7: Quantitative Genetics: When Many Genes Act at Once.

Chapter 8: Species and Speciation.

Chapter 9: Phylogenetics: Reconstructing the Tree of Life.

Part III: What Evolution Does.

Chapter 10: The Evolution of Life History.

Chapter 11: Units of Selection and the Evolution of Social Behavior.

Chapter 12: Evolution and Sex.

Chapter 13: Co-evolution: The Evolution of Interacting Species.

Chapter 14: Evo-Devo: The Evolution of Development.

Chapter 15: Molecular Evolution.

Part IV: Evolution and Your World.

Chapter 16: Human Evolution.

Chapter 17: The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance.

Chapter 18: HIV: The Origin and Evolution of a Virus.

Chapter 19: Influenza: One Flu, Two Flu, Your Flu, Bird Flu.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 20: Ten Fascinating Fossil Finds.

Chapter 21: Ten Amazing Adaptations.

Chapter 22: Ten Arguments against Evolution and Why They’re Wrong.

Index.