Part One. Lost in the cosmos. 1. How to build a universe

2. Welcome to the Solar System

3. The Reverend Evans's universe

Part Two. The size of the Earth

4. The measure of things

5. The stone-breakers

6. Science red in tooth and claw

7. Elemental matters

Part Three. A new age dawns

8. Einstein's universe

9. The mighty atom

10. Getting the lead out

11. Muster Mark's quarks

12. The Earth moves

Part Four. Dangerous planet

13. Bang!

14. The fire below

15. Dangerous beauty

Part five. Life itself

16. Lonely plante

17. Into the troposphere

18. The bounding main

19. The rise of life

20. Small world

21. Life goes on

22. Goodbye to all that

23. The richness of being

24. Cells

25. Darwin's singular notion

26. The stuff of life

Part Six. The road to us

27. Ice time

28. The mysterious biped

29. The restless ape

30. Goodbye