The Age of Everything

Acknowledgments
 
1. Introduction
2. The Calendars of the Classic Maya
3. Precession, Polaris, and the Age of the Pyramids
4. The Physics of Carbon-14
5. Calibrating Carbon-14 Dates and the History of the Air
6. Carbon-14 and the Peopling of the New World
7. Potassium, Argon, DNA, and Walking Upright
8. Molecular Dating and the Many Different Types of Mammals
9. Meteorites and the Age of the Solar System
10. Colors, Brightness, and the Age of Stars
11. Distances, Redshifts, and the Age of the Universe
12. Parameterizing the Age of the Universe
 
Glossary
Index