PART 1: THE HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK: EVOLUTION AS SCIENCE: Before Darwin -- Darwin and natural selection -- The arguments and the evidence for evolution -- PART 2: ORIGINS: THE ENORMITY OF TIME: The origins of cosmic structures and chemical elements -- Origin of Earth -- Molecules, protocells and natural selection -- From molecules to life -- Origins of ciells and the first organisms -- PART 3:THE ORGANIC FRAMEWORK: GENES CELLS AND DEVELOPMENT: Cell division, Mendelian genetics, and sex determination -- Chromosomes, mutation, gene regulation and variation -- Species, phylogeny and classification -- Genes and phylo genetic relationships -- Genes, development and evolution -- PART 4: THE ORGANISMS: THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE: Evolution of plants and fungi -- Animals and their origin -- Evolution among the invertebrates -- Chordate and vertebrate origins -- From water to land to air: amphibians and amniotes -- Evolution of mammals -- Primate evolution and the human origins -- PART 5: POPULATION AND SPECIATION: CHANGES WITHIN AND BETWEEN SPECIES: Populations and speciation: changes within and between species -- Populations, gene frequencies and equilibrium -- Changes to gene frequencies -- Structure and maintenance of populations -- From populations to species -- PART 6: EVOLUTION AND SOCIETY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE; SOCIETY AND RELIGION: Cultural and human-directed evolution -- Belief, religion and evolution -- Glossary.

This book presents evolution of organisms, how genes cell and embryonic development provide the organic framework by which evolution occurs and how evolution and society have an impact on one another. This is very useful book.