CONTENTS

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR SHE HAS HER MOTHERS LAUGH

OTHER BOOKS BY CARL ZIMMER

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

EPIGRAPH

PROLOGUE

PART I

A Stroke on the Cheek

1. The Light Trifle of His Substance

2. Traveling Across the Face of Time

3. This Race Should End with Them

4. Attagirl

PART II

Wayward DNA

5. An Evening’s Revelry

6. The Sleeping Branches

7. Individual Z

8. Mongrels

9. Nine Foot High Complete

10. Ed and Fred

PART III

The Pedigree Within

11. Ex Ovo Omnia

12. Witches’-Broom

13. Chimeras

PART IV

Other Channels

14. You, My Friend, Are a Wonderland

15. Flowering Monsters

16. The Teachable Ape

PART V

The Sun Chariot

17. Yet Did He Greatly Dare

18. Orphaned at Conception

19. The Planet’s Heirs

GLOSSARY

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR