Contents
Prologue: A Tale of Two Planets
1 Almost Too Good To Be True
2 Mediocrity
3 Rarely Earth
4 Constant Change
5 Air Conditioning
6 Snowballs and Greenhouses
7 Staggering Through Time
8 Music of the Spheres
9 Force of Nature
10 Pond Weeds and Daisies
11 Life’s Big Bang
12 Eclipse
13 The Dark Side of the Moon
14 Gaia or Goldilocks?
Epilogue: Siblings
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index