... a big book, packed with interesting material (some of it new) and well illustrated ... while rehashing much that we have heard before over the last few decades, it is a tighter, broader and more thoughtful overview than most. - Fortean Times
Part I: Origins of the Cosmos
1. Prime Theory - The Big Bang
2. Natural Alternative Theories - Quasi Steady State; Eternal Inflation; A Mirror Universe; Colliding in Higher Dimensions; Gravity Over the Rainbow; The Slow Thaw; A Cyclic Universe; White Holes and Alternate Universes
3. Alien Alternative Theories - Metaphysics, Spirituality, and Religion; A Digitally Simulated Universe; Intervention from Beyond
4. Summary
Part II: The Emergence of Life
1. Prime Theory - The Great Chasm
2. Natural Alternative Theories - The World of RNA; Fire and Ice; Molecules With Feet of Clay; Buried at Sea; The Gaia Hypothesis
3. Alien Alternative Theories - Biological SETI and Panspermia; DNA Doctors; Physical Intervention
4. Summary
Part III: The First Humans
1. Prime Theory - Lucy the Australopithecus Afarensis
2. Natural Alternative Theories - The Anthropic Principle; Biocentrism; The March of Evolution; Panpsychism
3. Alien Alternative Theories - Zecharia Sitchin and the Coming of the Gods; Jehovah and the Demiurge; Discovering Aliens in the Mirror
4. Summary
Part IV: Expansion
1. Prime Theory - Out of Africa
2. Natural Alternative Theories - Ancient Civilizations and Mistaken Identities; Diffusion and the Spread of Ideas; The First People of Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Americas, Antarctica
3. Alien Alternative Theories - The Problem of Time; The Jewish Exodus; The Hopi Migration; The Aztec Journey; The Mysterious Mound Builders; Power Points and Energy Stations
4. Summary
Part V: Early Civilization
1. Prime Theory - The Mesopotamian / Egyptian Genesis
2. Natural Alternative Theories - Mysteries of Goebekli Tepe; Artifact Anomalies; the Americas
3. Alien Alternative Theories - The Face on Mars; The Nazca Lines; Stonehenge; Egyptian Pyramids; Sacsayhuaman and Beyond
4. Summary
Part VI: Origins
1. Prime Theory - A Purpose for Lost Civilizations
2. Natural Alternative Theories - The Rise of Atlantis and the Coming of the Flood; Studies in Stone; The Message of the Myth
3. Alien Alternative Theories - A Space of Time; Life in the Test Tube
4. Summary
Part VII: Future Possibilities - Suppressed History; Alternative Theories; Ancient Aliens; Hidden Origins; Future Scenarios; Summary
Bibliography
Index