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- Geologic Time
- Early Attempts at Earth Dating
- Modern Techniques for Determining the Age of the Earth
- Arranging Events in Order
- Geologic Time and the Fossil Record
- Early Ideas About Fossils
- Types of Fossils
- Correlating Fossils with Geologic Time
- A Closer Look: What is Carbon-14 Dating?
- The Geologic Time Scale
- Paleontology, Archaeology, and Human Evolution
- A Closer Look: Neanderthals Were Probably a Different Species
- The First Hominids—The Australopiths
- Later Hominids—The Genus Homo
- The Origin of Homo sapiens
- The Classification of Organisms
- Domains Archaea and Eubacteria
- Domain Eucarya
- A Closer Look: The World's Oldest and Largest Living Organisms
- Acellular Infectious Particles
- Viroids: Infectious RNA
- Prions: Infectious Proteins
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