The sports gene: inside the science of extraordinary athletic performance

In search of sports genes

Beat by an underhand girl: the gene-free model of expertise

A tale of two high jumpers (or: 10,000 hours plus or minus 10,000 hours)

Major league vision and the greatest child athlete sample ever: the hardware and software paradigm

Why men have nipples

The talent of trainability

Superbaby, bully whippets, and the trainability of muscle

The big bang of body types

The vitruvian NBA player

We are all black (sort of): race and genetic diversity

The warrior-slave theory of Jamaican sprinting

Malaria and muscle fibers

Can every Kalenjin run?

The world's greatest accidental (altitudinous) talent sieve

Sled dogs, ultrarunners, and couch potato genes

The heartbreak gene: death, injury, and pain on the field

The gold medal mutation

Epilogue: the perfect athlete.