Contents

Preface by E. O. Wilson

Introduction


Part I

Beginnings

1. What We All Used to Know

2. Common Names

3. The Invisible World


Part II

Fogging (The Tree of Life)

4. The Apostles

5. Finding Everything

6. Finding an Ant-Riding Beetle


Part III

Roots

7. Dividing the Cell

8. Grafting the Tree of Life

9. Symbiotic Cells on the Seafloor

10. Origin Stories


Part IV

Other Worlds

11. Looking Out

12. To Squeeze Life from a Stone

13. The Wrong Elephant?

14. What Remains


Endnotes

Searchable Terms

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher