From the Book - Random House Trade Paperback Edition.
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.