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-- 6.The Midwife Toad -- 7.The Great Catastrophe -- 8.A Post-Apocalyptic World -- 9.New Dawn, New Invasions -- 10.Messel---a Window into the Past -- 11.The European Great Coral Reef -- 12.Tales from the Sewers of Paris -- II.BECOMING CONTINENTAL -- 34-2.6 Million Years Ago -- 13.La Grande Coupure -- 14.Cats, Birds and Olms -- 15.The Marvellous Miocene -- 16.A Miocene Bestiary -- 17.Europe's Extraordinary Apes -- 18.The First Upright Apes -- 19.Lakes and Islands -- 20.The Messinian Salinity Crisis -- 21.The Pliocene---Time of Laocoon -- III.Ice Ages -- 2.6 Million-38,000 Years Ago -- 22.The Pleistocene---Gateway to the Modern World -- 23.Hybrids---Europe, the Mother of Metissage -- 24.Return of the Upright Apes -- Contents note continued: 25.Neanderthals -- 26.Bastards -- 27.The Cultural Revolution -- 28.Of Assemblages and Elephants -- 29.Other Temperate Giants -- 30.Ice Beasts -- 31.What the Ancestors Drew -- IV.HUMAN EUROPE -- 38,000 Years Ago to the Future -- 32.The Balance Tips -- 33.The Domesticators -- 34.From the Horse to Roman Failure -- 35.Emptying the Islands -- 36.The Calm and the Storm -- 37.Survivors -- 38.Europe's Global Expansion -- 39.New Europeans -- 40.Animals of Empire -- 41.Europe's Bewolfing -- 42.Europe's Silent Spring -- 43.Rewilding -- 44.Re-creating Giants.