1. Introduction and geological periods
2. Early views of fossils
3. Strata and stratigraphy
4. Point bars and meandering rivers
5. Classification
6. Precambrian life: Archaean to Proterozoic
7. Precambrian life: Late Proterozoic
8. The Phylum Chordata
9. Jawless fish (superclass Agnatha)
10. Placoderms to bony fish
11. Lobe-finned fish
12. Tetrapods
13, Amphibians 1: Temnospondyls
14. Amphibians 2: Reptiliomorphs
15. Sauropsid Reptiles
16. Synapsids: Pelycosaurs to Therapsids
17. Middle and Late Permian Therapsids 1: South Africa
18. Gorgonopsians: Mammal-like Reptiles
19. Middle and Late Permian Therapsids 2: Russia
20. Permian extinction; Triassic Dicynodonts: South Africa
21. Triassic Synapsids: China and India
22. Cynodonts to Mammaliformes
23. Mesozoic Mammaliformes
24. Mesozoic Stem Mammals
25. Jurassic Early Placental Mammals
26. Archosaurian Reptiles
27. Saurischian Dinosaurs 1: Theropods: Large Carnivores
28. Saurischian Dinosaurs 2: Theropods: Bird-like Dinosaurs
29. Saurischian Dinosaurs 3: Sauropods: Large Herbivores
30. Ornithischian Dinosaurs 1: Stegosaurs and Ankylosaurians
31. Ornithischian Dinosaurs 2: Ceratopsia
32. Jurassic & Cretaceous Britain
33. Early Primates 1: proprimates and early adapids
34. Early Primates 2: Eocene adapids and omomyids
35. Early Primates 3: Eocene and Oligocene Fayum anthropoids
36. Early Miocene Apes: Africa
37. Late Miocene Apes: Europe and Asia
38. Old World Monkeys: Miocene and Pliocene
39. New World Monkeys: fossils
40. New World Monkeys: modern
41. Modern Apes: Africa and Southeast Asia
42. Hominins: Sahelanthropus to early Australopithecines
43. Hominins: Australopithecus africanus to Homo habilis
44. Homo erectus 1: Africa
45. Homo erectus 2: Java
46. Homo erectus 3: China
47. Homo erectus 4: Europe