The last lost world: ice ages, human origins, and the invention of the Pleistocene

Prologue : Mossel Bay, South Africa

pt. 1. How the Pleistocene got its ice. Rift ; Ice ; Story

pt. 2. The great game. Footnotes to Plato ; Out of Africa ; Missing links ; New truths, heresies, superstitions ; The ancients and the moderns

pt. 3. How the Pleistocene lost its tale. The hominin who would be king ; The Anthropocene

Epilogue : Rift redux.