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





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