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Introduction

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

Chapter 12: Trillions of Transistors: An Uncertain Future

Notes

Index