| 1 Birth town Shrewsbury | 2 Birth house The Mount | 3 Father Robert and grandfather Erasmus | 4 Lamarck and heredity of acquired traits |
| 5 The medical school at Edinburgh | 6 Living in Edinburgh | 7 Grant teaches Darwin the lower animals | 8 Christ's College in Cambridge |
| 9 Darwin's life in Cambridge Henslow |
10 Sedgwick Sedgwick Museum |
11 FitzRoy and the Beagle | 12 Darwin's books: Von Humboldt and Lyell. |
| 13 Start of the voyage of the Beagle | 14 Discovery of fossil bones, a. o. the giant sloth | 15 Glyptodon, Taxodon, Macrauchenia | 16 The story of the Fuegians |
| 17 Darwin collection in Londen Lyells right |
18 Darwin collection of shells in Londen | 19 Darwin collection Londen: lobsters and rocks | 20 Galapagos Islands |
| 21 Darwin's finches |
22 Second part of the voyage. Book: The Voyage of The Beagle |
23 Farming out the work Darwin's boek on coral islands and atolls |
24 Living in London Malthus Discovery of natural selection |
| 25 Explanation of natural selection | 26 Artificial selection | 27 Contacts with breeders and growers | 28 Book list, part 1 To marry or not to marry |
| 29 Marriage with Emma | 30 Down House | 31 Life and work at Down House | 32 The Sandwalk |
| 33 Again the Sandwalk | 34 Greenhouse | 35 Darwin's children Annie's death |
36 George Inn |
| 37 Barnacles and Goose barnacles | 38 Resuming the study of evolution | 39 The peppered moth The Wallace drama |
40 Hooker Wallace and Darwin share the honour |
| 41 Origin of species Museum in Oxford |
42 Place of the debate | 43 The debate between Wilberforce and Huxley | 44 Mockery and appreciation |
| 45 Mendel and heredity Missing link: Archaeopteryx |
46 The book of orchids | 47 Book: Animals and plants under domestication | 48 Family life |
| 49 Book list, part 2 Descent of man |
50 Book: Descent of man | 51 Book: Sexual selection | 52 Sexual selection |
| 53 Book: Expression of emotion in man and animals | 54 Book: Carnivorous plants | 55 Book: Climbing plants Book: Different flowers on plants of one species |
56 Book: Plant movements |
| 57 The book of worms | 58 Emma and Darwin at high age The autobiography |
59 Darwin's death Darwin's children |
60 Darwin's funeral |
| 61 Conclusion |