From the Book - Random House Trade Paperback Edition.
Introduction: the house of millions of years
Thaw : Northern Plain, Alaska, USA Pleistocene
Origins : Kanapoi, Kenya Pliocene
Deluge : Gargono, Italy Miocene
Homeland : Tinguiririca, Chile Oligocene
Cycles : Seymour Island, Antarctica Eocene
Rebirth : Hell Creek, Montana, USA Paleocene
Signals : Yixian, Liaoning, China Cretaceous
Foundation : Swabia, Germany Jurassic
Contingency : Madygen, Kyrgyzstan Triassic
Seasons : Moradi, Niger Permian
Fuel : Mazon Creek, Illinois, USA Carboniferous
Collaboration : Rhynie, Scotland, UK Devonian
Depths : Yaman-Kasy, Russia Silurian
Transformation : Soom, South Africa Ordovician
Consumers : Chengjiang, Yunnan, China Cambrian
Emergence : Ediacara Hills, Australia Ediacaran
Epilogue: a town called hope.
