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Evolutionary Biology: Deep Time and the Logic of Life

1The Desire for Perfect Equivalence 2The Engine at the Bottom of the Sea 3LUCA: The Last Universal Common Ancestor 4The Great Oxygenation Event 5The Merger 6The Cambrian Explosion and the Genetic Toolkit 7Moving Continents, Moving Species 8The Big Five: Mass Extinctions as Engines of Change 9After the Dying: Adaptive Radiation 10Your Inner Fish: Deep Homology 11The African Genome 12Co-evolution and the Arms Race 13The Sixth Extinction 14Reading the Code: CRISPR and Conservation Genomics 15The Dangerous Metaphor 16Deep Time and Human Responsibility

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