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Opening Credits
1/18/2026
Dedication
1/18/2026
Foreword
1/18/2026
Part 1: Evolution - 1. The curse
1/18/2026
2. Why alien fish most probably don’t fly
1/18/2026
3. What is true for birds is true for us
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4. An unexpected parcel
1/18/2026
5. The ear that shouldn’t exist
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6. On the advantages of being ethereal
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7. Little Green Men signal number 1
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8. A Tree of Life
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9. What life is
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Part 2: An Extinction - 1. Where digging leads
1/18/2026
2. And you thought you were having a bad day . . .
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3. Bad things usually come in a series
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4. What to do when all hell breaks loose
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Chapter 16
1/18/2026
6. A planetary facelift
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7. An ocean made of rocks
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8. How a meteorite can send you to hospital
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Part 3: The History of the Earth - 1. The birth of a cosmic couple
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2. After hell comes hell
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3. The relativity of boredom
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4. An explosion that shouldn’t have been
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5. A little summary
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6. A long-gone alien world
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7. Land ho!
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8. Turning green
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9. The time of the giant insects
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10. Two holes in the skull
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11. The day the ground opened up
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Part 4: A Journey Within - 1. The basic building block
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2. Beware of yellow robots
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3. Introducing the yellow robot
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4. There’s mystery in your hand
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5. Journey inward
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6. Bubbles up and down
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7. Compartments, everywhere
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8. To see the invisible
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9. Why people consider you to be a CHNOPS
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10. The nucleic acids
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11. The art of making chains
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12. The message from within
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13. The headquarters
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14. The birth of memory
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15. DNA
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16. A universal alphabet
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17. The code of life
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18. A 150,000-year-long journey
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19. From life to life
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20. Humans are waterfalls
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21. The making of you, part one
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22. Power, the female link
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Chapter 53
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24. Something deep
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25. Sometimes, even dating apps can’t help
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26. The making of you, part two: epigenesis
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Part 5: Domains of Life - 1. More than a summary
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2. Three is a magic number, even for a tree
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3. A conundrum
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4. Healthy smokers
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5. What we are a part of
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6. Introducing LUCA
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7. Horizontal gene transfer
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8. Poisons
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9. And now for some whisky
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10. A photo shoot
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11. A parallel world
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12. Genetic engineering
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Part 6: Looking for an Origin - 1. Spontaneous generation
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2. A day in the life of . . .
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3. Spontaneous generation revisited
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4. Before DNA
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5. Extreme survival
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6. Destinations
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7. Distant encounters of the third kind
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8. Where are they?
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Epilogue
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Acknowledgements
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Sources
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Closing Credits
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