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1. WHAT IS REALITY? WHAT IS MAGIC?
Models: testing our imagination
Science and the supernatural: explanation and its enemy
The slow magic of evolution
2. WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON?
Who was the first person really?
Turned to stone
A ride back in time
DNA tells us we are all cousins
3. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF ANIMALS?
Why are there really so many different kinds of animals?
Pulling apart: how languages, and species, divide
Islands and isolation: the power of separation
Stirring, selection and survival
4. WHAT ARE THINGS MADE OF?
Crystals – atoms on parade
Solid, liquid, gas – how molecules move
Inside the atom
The tiniest things of all
Carbon – the scaffolding of life
What, no myths?
5. WHY DO WE HAVE NIGHT AND DAY, WINTER AND SUMMER?
What really changes day to night, winter to summer?
Working round the clock – and the calendar
Into orbit
Eggs, ellipses and escaping gravity
A sideways look at summer
6. WHAT IS THE SUN?
What is the sun, really?
How stars work
The life story of a star
Supernovas and stardust
Going round and around
Asteroids and shooting stars
Light of our lives
7. WHAT IS A RAINBOW?
The real magic of the rainbow
What light is made of
How raindrops make rainbows
On the right wavelength?
8. WHEN AND HOW DID EVERYTHING BEGIN?
How did everything begin, really?
Rainbows and red shift
Backwards to the big bang
9. ARE WE ALONE?
Is there really life on other planets?
Looking for Goldilocks
Here’s looking at you
10. WHAT IS AN EARTHQUAKE?
Earthquake myths
What earthquakes really are
How the Earth moves
Sea-floor spreading
Driven by heat
11. WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN?
Why do bad things happen really?
Luck, chance and cause
Pollyanna and paranoia
Illness and evolution – work in progress?
12. WHAT IS A MIRACLE?
Rumour, coincidence and snowballing stories
A good way to think about miracles
Today’s miracle, tomorrow’s technology
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX
About the Author and Illustrator
Also by Richard Dawkins
The Magic of Reality for iPad
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