Prologue : a world flagship of inspiration / Tui De Roy
Foreword : Galápagos research, a family tradition / Sarah Darwin
The Galápagos National Park : half a century dedicated to conservation / Edgar Muñoz
The Charles Darwin Foundation : history of a science and conservation vision / Peter Kramer
Islands on the move : significance of hotspot volcanoes / Dennis Geist
Living water : investigating an elusive element / Noémi d'Ozouville
Paleoclimate and the future : a knife-edge balance / Julian P. Sachs
Vertebrate diversity : the long view / David W. Steadman
Lichen discoveries : bright, bold color specks, tiny and overlooked / Frank Bungartz
Insular flora : more than 'wretched-looking little weeds' / Conley K. McMullen
Sunflower trees and giant cacti : vegetation changes over time / Ole Hamann
On the snails' trail : evolution and speciation among a vanishing tribe / Christine Parent and Guy Coppois
Inshore fishes : the case of the missing damsel / Jack S. Grove
Shark migrations : discovering the golden triangle / Alex Hearn
Giant tortoises : mapping their genetic past and future / Adalgisa Caccone and Jeffrey Powell
Marine iguanas : life on the edge / L. Michael Romero and Martin Wikelski
Land iguanas : emergence of a new species / Gabriele Gentile
Darwin's finches : studying evolution in action / B. Rosemary Grant and Peter R. Grant
A most unusual hawk : one mother and several fathers / Patricia Parker
Nazca booby behavior : some evolutionary surprises / Dave Anderson
The waved albatross : the family affairs of a critically endangered species / Kathryn P. Huyvaert
Penguins on the equator : hanging on by a thread / Hernan Vargas
The flightless cormorant : the evolution of female rule / Carlos A. Valle
Sea lions and fur seals : cold water species on the equator / Fritz Trillmich
Parasites and pathogens : threats to native birds / Patricia Parker
Success in biological control : the scale and the ladybird / Charlotte Causton
Saving 'lost' plants : finding and nurturing the survivors / Alan Tye
Reign of the giant tortoises : repopulating ancestral islands / Linda J. Cayot and Washington Tapia
Project Isabela : ecosystem restoration through mega-eradication / Karl Campbell
Reports from the front : personal accounts from National Park field staff / Wilson Cabrera and Omar Garcia
A perspective on people and the future : the search for harmony / Graham Watkins
Reflections : 'Noe reall islands...,' but paradise / Godfrey Merlen.
