Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- One: Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? -- Two: Microbes First -- Three: The Germ of Phylogeny -- Four: Creatures Void of Form -- Five: About Chaos -- Six: Kingdoms at Biology's Borders -- Seven: The Prokaryote and the Eukaryote -- Eight: On the Unity of Life -- Nine: Symbiotic Complexity -- Ten: The Morning of Molecular Phylogenetics -- Eleven: Roots in the Genetic Code -- Twelve: A Third Form of Life -- Thirteen: A Kingdom on a Molecule -- Fourteen: Against Adaptationism -- Fifteen: In the Capital of the New Kingdom -- Sixteen: Out of Eden -- Seventeen: Big Tree -- Eighteen: The Dawn Cell Controversy -- Nineteen: Three Domains -- Twenty: Disputed Territories -- Twenty-One: Grappling with a Worldwide Web -- Twenty-Two: Entangled Roots and Braided Lives -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Index.