《寒武大爆发时的人类远祖（英文版）》内容包括：（1）寒武纪生命大爆发时期脊椎动物的演化过程。（2）和脊椎动物演化形成相伴随的其他动物门类物种的演化及形态研究。前两部分包括发表在《自然》和《科学》杂志上的十一篇论文以及发表在国内外一流刊物上的十五篇论文。（3）国际科学界的评论，其中包括英国皇家科学院院士、牛津大学客座教授理查德·道金斯等国际古生物学界在其撰写的相关作品和教科书中对这一研究成果的肯定和应用，以及《自然》杂志发表三篇专题论文时国际专家给出的专评。

Part One Nature of Cambrian Explosion
1. Cambrian Explosion: Birth of Tree of Animals
2. Birth and Early Evolution of Metazoans

Part Two Subkingdom Deuterostomia
3. Lower Cambrian Vertebrates from South China
4. Catching the First Fish
5. Head and Backbone of the Early Cambrian Vertebrate Haikouichthys
5. A Paleontological Perspective of Vertebrate Origin
7. Primitive Deuterostomes from the Chengjiang Lagerstatte （Lower Cambrian，China）
8. On Being Vetulicolian
9. A Pipiscid-like Fossil from the Lower Cambrian of South China
10. On the Phylum Vetulicolia
11. Deuterostome Evolution
12. Evidence for Gill Slits and a Pharynx in Cambrian Vetulicolians: Implications for the Early Evolution of Deuterostomes
13. The Earliest History of the Deuterostomes : the Importance of the Chengjiang Fossil-Lagerstatte
14. Ancestral Echinoderms from the Chengjiang Deposits of China
15. Echinoderm Roots
16. An Early Cambrian Tunicate from China
17. A Pikaia-like Chordate from the Lower Cambrian of China
18. Reinterpretation of Yunnanozoon as the Earliest Known Hemichordate
19. A New Species of Yunnanozoan with Implications for Deuterostome Evolution
20. Response to Comment on \"A New Species of Yunnanozoan with Implications for Deuterostome Evolution\"

Part Three Subkingdom Protostomia
21. Redlichiacean Trilobites with Preserved Soft-parts from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna（ South China） （Excerpt）
22. Reconsideration of the Supposed Naraoiid Larva from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte， South China
23. Anatomy and Systematic Affinities of the Lower Cambrian Bivalved Arthropod Isoxys Auritus
24. A Venomous Arthropod in the Early Cambrian Sea
25. Cambrian Palaeobiogeography of Bradoriida
25. Anatomy and Lifestyle of Kunmingella （Arthropoda， Bradoriida） from the Chengiiang Fossil Lagerstatte （Lower Cambrian: Southwest China）
27. A Rare Lobopod with Well-preserved Eyes from Chengjiang Lagerstatte and Its Implications for Origin of Arthropods
28. An Armoured Cambrian Lobopodian from China with Arthropod-like Appendages
29. Cambrian Lobopodians and Extant Onychophorans Provide New Insights into Early Cephalization in Panarthropoda
30. The Earliest-known Ancestors of Recent Priapulomorpha from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte
31. Soft-tissue Preservation in the Lower Cambrian Linguloid Brachiopod from South China
32. Rhynchonelliformean Brachiopods with Soft-tissue Preservation from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte of South China
33. A Sclerite-bearing Stem Group Entoproct from the Early Cambrian and Its Implications

Part Four Basic Animals
34. Lower Cambrian Vendobionts from China and Early Diploblast Evolution
35. Early Cambrian Pentamerous Cubozoan Embryos from South China