导语

  

    Some of these stories tell of a god who created the world and everything in it,including people. Other stories have many gods, who each made different things and then fought great battles for control of the world.

内容提要

  

    Be an interactive eyewitness to the work of Charles Darwin and the fascinating story of evolution, bringing to life the incredible ideas that transformed our understanding of life on Earth and where we came from.

Creation stories
Fossils and fairytales
Victims of the flood
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
Extinct animals
A series of catastrophes
Dinosaur frenzy
Charles Darwin
Living evidence
Animal and plant distribution
Fossil evidence
How old is Earth?
Artificial selection
Variation and inheritance
The struggle for existence
Natural selection
Understanding adaptation
How new species are formed
Living intermediates
Fossil intermediates
Jumps and gaps
Ladders and branches
Gregor Mendel
Solving the DNA puzzle
The molecular evidence
The origin of life
Science and belief
History of life
Up to the present
Classifying life
Discoveries in Evolution
Find out more
Glossary
Index