| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction: The Trail from There to Here |
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9 | (34) |
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Act I: Cast of Characters |
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9 | (2) |
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Love Is the Aboriginal Tracker |
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11 | (4) |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (2) |
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Memories, Impressions, and Reflections |
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19 | (2) |
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21 | (2) |
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Binary Bipeds and Digital Digressions |
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23 | (2) |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (3) |
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29 | (2) |
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31 | (8) |
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Male Feet and Female Footprints |
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39 | (4) |
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43 | (36) |
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Act II: Cast of Characters |
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43 | (1) |
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The Deep Structure of Sediments and Strata |
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44 | (3) |
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Cruising the Cambrian: Fossil Art in the Making |
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47 | (6) |
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Walking in Circles: The First Footprints on Land |
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53 | (1) |
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Fish Out of Water: Giant Steps for Vertebrates |
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54 | (2) |
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56 | (2) |
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The First Reptile Tracks? |
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58 | (2) |
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60 | (1) |
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Dimetropus: Our Earliest Mammal Ancestors |
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61 | (2) |
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Permian Murders and Dirty Devils |
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63 | (1) |
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The Mammal Underground: Of Burrows and Bush Pigs |
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64 | (3) |
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Running from Floods in the Desert |
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67 | (4) |
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71 | (3) |
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74 | (2) |
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76 | (3) |
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79 | (26) |
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Act III: Cast of Characters |
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79 | (1) |
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80 | (2) |
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82 | (4) |
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A Message in the Lady's Hand |
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86 | (3) |
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Now You See 'Em, Now You Don't |
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89 | (1) |
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Tracking the Crimson Crocs |
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90 | (3) |
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93 | (1) |
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A Protomammal with Hairy Feet? |
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94 | (1) |
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95 | (1) |
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96 | (2) |
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Now We See 'Em: A New Look at Dinosaur National Monument |
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98 | (1) |
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Gateway to the World of Miniature Mammals |
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99 | (1) |
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Dinosauroids and the First Dinosaurs |
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100 | (2) |
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The Stress of Missing and Broken Pieces |
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102 | (3) |
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105 | (24) |
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Act IV: Cast of Characters |
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105 | (1) |
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Fibonacci's Fingers: The Sacred Geometry of Hands and Feet |
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106 | (2) |
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The First Dinosaur Tracker |
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108 | (2) |
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Big Blue Bananas in the Great Rift Valley |
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110 | (2) |
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Grallator: The ``Early Bird'' That Went on Stilts |
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112 | (1) |
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113 | (2) |
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115 | (3) |
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118 | (2) |
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The Diminutive Dune Runners |
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120 | (2) |
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122 | (3) |
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125 | (1) |
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The World's Longest Brontosaur Tracks |
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126 | (1) |
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Glimpse of a Dinosaur from the Dark Ages |
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127 | (2) |
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129 | (30) |
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Act V: Cast of Characters |
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129 | (1) |
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Megalosaurs and Megatracksites |
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129 | (5) |
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Holy Father of the Elephants: The World's Longest Dinosaur Trackways |
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134 | (3) |
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Padded Out: Of Flesh and Bones |
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137 | (1) |
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138 | (3) |
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Dinehichnus: The People's Track |
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141 | (2) |
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143 | (1) |
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The Rise and Fall of Thunder Beings and Thunder Lizards |
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144 | (3) |
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Dinosaur Trails in Purgatory |
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147 | (3) |
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150 | (1) |
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Crocodiles in the Channel |
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151 | (2) |
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Sacred Mule Tracks From Lobster Bay |
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153 | (2) |
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Teil hard's Enigmatic Chinese Footprint |
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155 | (4) |
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159 | (32) |
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Act VI: Cast of Characters |
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159 | (1) |
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Tracking Dinosaurs in The Lost World |
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160 | (2) |
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A Pterosaurian Bigfoot or Two |
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162 | (1) |
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A Rare Commodity: Tracks of Armored Dinosaurs |
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163 | (2) |
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The Early Birds: New Perspectives on Bird Evolution |
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165 | (1) |
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Ships That Pass in the Night: A Mesozoic Crossroads |
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166 | (3) |
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169 | (1) |
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170 | (2) |
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Ghost Prints, Phantom Tracks, and Phantom Limbs |
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172 | (1) |
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173 | (3) |
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176 | (4) |
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180 | (1) |
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Creative Midnight Chisel Work: Evolution Versus Creation |
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181 | (4) |
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Evolution as Creation: Science and Spirituality |
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185 | (6) |
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191 | (34) |
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Act VII: Cast of Characters |
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191 | (1) |
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Migrating Along the Dinosaur Freeway |
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192 | (2) |
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A Promenade Along Dinosaur Ridge |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (2) |
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197 | (2) |
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199 | (2) |
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201 | (2) |
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203 | (1) |
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204 | (1) |
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205 | (2) |
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207 | (2) |
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T. Rex Tracks and Dancing Dinosaurologists |
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209 | (3) |
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The Wall: Getting High in the Andes |
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212 | (3) |
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Of Hooves and Horned Dinosaurs |
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215 | (6) |
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Celestial Messages on the Iridium Band |
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221 | (3) |
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224 | (1) |
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225 | (24) |
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Act VIII: Cast of Characters |
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225 | (1) |
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Tracking The Rise of the Himalayas: Mammals Masquerading as Dinosaurs |
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226 | (1) |
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227 | (2) |
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229 | (2) |
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Tracking the Symbolism of the Cloven Hoof |
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231 | (4) |
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Pliocene Dressage: Early Equestrianism |
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235 | (4) |
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239 | (6) |
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Blessed Trail of Our Ancestors |
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245 | (4) |
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249 | (26) |
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Act IX: Cast of Characters |
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249 | (1) |
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249 | (3) |
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252 | (2) |
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254 | (2) |
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Giant Wombats Dead in Their Tracks |
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256 | (1) |
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Moa Tracks but No Moa Track Maker |
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257 | (4) |
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261 | (7) |
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268 | (7) |
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The Signature of Humanity |
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275 | (26) |
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Act X: Cast of Characters |
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275 | (1) |
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall |
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276 | (3) |
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Fingerprints of Our Genes |
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279 | (3) |
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282 | (1) |
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Over the Moon: The Trail Leaves Our Planet |
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283 | (4) |
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287 | (3) |
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This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land |
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290 | (2) |
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292 | (4) |
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Save the Last Dance for Me |
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296 | (5) |
| Notes |
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301 | (24) |
| Index |
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