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Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, under Public Domain Mark 1.0 license: p.28

Biblioteca Digital del Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC: https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es: pp. 66–67

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris: pp. 24, 36, 37

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The British Library, London, under Public Domain Mark 1 (PDM 1.0) license: p.64

Carol Ballenger / David M. Hillis: p.233

CASG Slide #351069, Sara Mansfield © 2014 California Academy of Sciences: p.217

Chantilly, cliché CNRS-IRHT, © Bibliothèque et archives du musée Condé, Chantilly: pp. 27 (Ms 339, fo. 270), p.35 (Ms 139, fo. 33), p.34 (Ms 139, fos 3v, 30v, 29v)

The Dean & Chapter, Hereford Cathedral: Richard of Haldingham, Mappa Mundi, c.1300, details: pp. 17 (top), 26

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David M. Hillis, Derrick Zwickl, and Robin Gutell, University of Texas: p.232

Evogeneao Tree of Life, 2008, 2017, © Leonard Eisenberg, courtesy of www.evogeneao.com: p.235

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Genes (Basel), 2018 Feb; 9(2):72, under Open Access Creative Commons license (CC by 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0: p.245

The Geological Society of London: pp. 92–93, 101 (top)

Getty Research Institute, Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program: pp. 15, 29, 45

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Graham Lawton, Guilty Pleasure: The Carbon Footprint of Cheese, New Scientist, 13/02/2019, © 2019 New Scientist Ltd. All rights reserved. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency: p.248

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Historic Maps Collection, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library: p.115

Howard Lynk – VictorianMicroscopeSlides.com: pp. 154, 155

iTOL.embl.de, Interactive tree of life, 2019, European Molecular Biology Laboratory: p.247

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, by permission: pp. 250, 251

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles: pp. 22, 23

© Jeff Blossom, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University: p.238

John Rylands Library, Copyright of The University of Manchester: p.25

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Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague: pp. 7, 30, 31

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Maxwell SL, Fuller RA, Brooks TM, and Watson JE, 2016: p.242

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Mendel Museum, Masaryk University, Brno: p.142

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National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture: p.61

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Nature Reviews, Microbiology, 2019, 17(4), 199–200 – fig. 1; courtesy of Prof. Ron Milo, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot: p.244

N. M. Foley, M. S. Springer, and E. C. Teeling: p.239

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Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, project PAUart, www.pauart.pl: pp. 122–123

Princeton Theological Seminary Library: p.60

Public domain: pp. 120–121, 192, 198–199

Rens, W. et al., Resolution and evolution of the duck-billed platypus karyotype..., 2004, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 101, pp. 16257–16261, fig. 3f, Courtesy of the authors: p.249

Reprinted with permission of AAAS from Estrada et al., Sci. Adv. 2017;3: e1600946, fig. 5, © The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/: p.243

Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library: p.132

Republished with permission of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, from Doolittle, Phylogenetic classification and the universal tree, Science, 1999, vol. 284, issue 5423, pp. 2124–2148, fig. 2; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.: p.230

Republished with permission of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, from M. Hildebrand, Symmetrical Gaits of Horses, Science, 1965, 150:3697, pp. 701–708, permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.: p.225

Republished with permission of The Royal Society, from Nilsson and Pelger, A Pessimistic Estimate of the Time Required for an Eye to Evolve, Proceedings: Biological Sciences, 1994, 256:1345, figs 1, 2; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.: p.228

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R. Muller, Department of Physics and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California: p.234

Robarts Library, University of Toronto Library, via Archive.org: jacket and p.175

Science Photo Library: pp. 90 (Science Source), 128–129 (Paul D. Stewart)

Scientific Reports, 2016, 6:29609 – fig. 3, under Open Access, Creative Commons license (CC by 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0: p.241

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Special Collections, University of Aberdeen: pp. 14, 16, 20, 21

Stephen Turner: p.89

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William Martin, Institut für Molekulare Evolution, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf: p.231