Chapter 1: Billions of Beetles
Chapter 2: Bacteria, Eukaryotic Cells, and Sex
Chapter 3: What Drives the Formation of New Species?
Chapter 4: The Geography of Species Richness
Chapter 5: Patterns, Hotspots, and the Geography of Lineages
Chapter 6: Sustaining Local Biodiversity
Chapter 7: The Expansion of Biodiversity on Planet Earth
Chapter 8: A World of Ever-Increasing Complexity
Chapter 9: Biological Complexity Triumphant: The Human Mind
Chapter 10: Ever More Complexity: Human Cultural Advance
Chapter 11: A Four-Billion-Year Epic