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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Prologue: A Very Bad Day on Planet Earth
1: Mystery of the Missing Megavolcano
Serendipity
Frozen in the Ice
Data in Davy Jones’s Locker
Blowing the Case Wide Open
Mystery Solved
2: Vulcan’s Fury
The Forge of Hephaistos
Incineration
Why Do Volcanoes Behave So Differently from One Another?
3: Land of the Killer Volcanoes
The Indonesian Arc
Krakatau Cracks
Tambora and the Year without a Summer
Supervolcanoes
4: Clues in Your Genes
The Blueprint of Life
Too Many Genes
Clockwork DNA
“Mitochondrial Eve”
Through the Bottleneck
Bottlenecks in Humans
5: Roots
The Third Chimpanzee
Fossils versus Molecules
Out of Eurasia?
The Piltdown Hoax
6: Out of Africa
The Taung Child, Mrs. Ples, and Dear Boy
The Human Lineage
Our Genus, Homo
Modern Humans Evolve
7: Humanity at the Crossroads
Consilience
The Threads of Toba
Bottlenecks Everywhere
Testing the Hypothesis
The Critics Strike Back
Where Do We Stand Now?
8: Volcanoes of Doom
The “Big Five”
The Doom of the Dinosaurs
“The Great Dying”
The Third Eruption
Volcanoes and Extinction
9: Future Shocks
Could It Happen Again?
Supervolcanoes in America
A Perspective on Catastrophes
Acknowledgments
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