Shaking the Tree

Introduction: Shaken and Stirred—Henry Gee
Part 1: Shaping the Tree: How to Create a Tree of Life
"Punctuated Equilibrium Comes of Age"—Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge
"The Major Evolutionary Transitions"—Eörs Szathmáry and John Maynard Smith
"The Powers and Pitfalls of Parsimony"—Caro-Beth Stewart
Part 2: Geoffroy’s Legacy: Development, Evolution and Paleontology
"Homeotic Genes and the Evolution of Arthropods and Chordates"—Sean B. Carroll
"A Common Plan for Dorsoventral Patterning in Bilateria"—E. M. De Robertis and Yoshiki Sasai
"Fossils, Genes and the Evolution of Animal Limbs"—Neil H. Shubin, Cliff Tabin and Sean Carroll
"The Fossil Record and the Early Evolution of the Metazoa"—S. Conway Morris
Part 3: Seeing the Tree for the Woods: The Global Context
"Latest Proterozoic Stratigraphy and Earth History"—Andrew H. Knoll and Malcolm R. Walter
"The Early Development of Terrestrial Ecosystems"—William A. Shear
"The Permo-Triassic Extinction"—Douglas H. Erwin
Part 4: Shaking the Tree: Case Histories in Phylogeny
"The Origin and Early Evolution of Plants on Land"—Paul Kenrick and Peter Crane
"The Origin and Early Diversification of Angiosperms"—Peter R. Crane, Else Marie Friis and Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen
"Agnathans and the Origin of Jawed Vertebrates"—Peter Forey and Philippe Janvier
"The Origin and Early Diversification of Tetrapods"—Per E. Ahlberg and Andrew R. Milner
"The First 85 Million Years of Avian Evolution"—Luis M. Chiappe
"Mammalian Phylogeny: Shaking the Tree"—Michael J. Novacek
Part 5: Climbing Down: The History of Primates
"Primate Origins: Plugging the Gaps"—Robert D. Martin
"Evolution and Environment in the Hominoidea"—Peter Andrews
"Origin and Evolution of the Genus Homo"—Bernard Wood
Afterword—Henry Gee
Index