Prologue |
11 |
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1 DARWINIANA |
1 Darwin's Delay |
21 |
2 Darwin's Sea Change, or Five Years at the Captain's Table |
28 |
3 Darwin's Dilemma: The Odyssey of Evolution |
34 |
4 Darwin's Untimely Burial |
39 |
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2 HUMAN EVOLUTION |
5 Matter of Degree |
49 |
6 Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution |
56 |
7 The Child as Man's Real Father |
63 |
8 Human Babies as Embryos |
70 |
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3 ORGANISMS AND EVOLUTIONARY EXEMPLARS |
9 The Misnamed, Mistreated, and Misunderstood Irish Elk |
79 |
10 Organic Wisdom, or Why Should a Fly Eat Its Mother from Inside |
91 |
11 Of Bamboos, Cicadas, and the Economy of Adam Smith |
97 |
12 The Problem of Perfection, or How Can a Clam Mount a Fish on Its Rear End? |
103 |
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4 PATTERNS AND PUNCTUATIONS IN THE HISTORY OF LIFE |
13 The Pentagon of Life |
113 |
14 An Unsung Single-Celled Hero |
119 |
15 Is the Cambrian Explosion a Sigmoid Fraud? |
126 |
16 The Great Dying |
134 |
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5 THEORIES OF THE EARTH |
17 The Reverend Thomas' Dirty Little Planet |
141 |
18 Uniformity and Catastrophe |
147 |
19 Velikovsky in Collision |
153 |
20 The Validation of Continental Drift |
160 |
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6 SIZE AND SHAPE, FROM CHURCHES TO BRAINS TO PLANETS |
21 Size and Shape |
171 |
22 Sizing Up Human Intelligence |
179 |
23 History of the Vertebrate Brain |
186 |
24 Planetary Sizes and Surfaces |
192 |
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7 SCIENCE IN SOCIETY--A HISTORICAL VIEW |
25 On Heroes and Fools in Science |
201 |
26 Posture Maketh the Man |
207 |
27 Racism and Recapitulation |
214 |
28 The Criminal as Nature's Mistake, or the Ape in Some of Us |
222 |
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8 THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF HUMAN NATURE |
Part A: Race, Sex, and Violence |
29 Why We Should Not Name Human Races--A Biological View |
231 |
30 The Nonscience of Human Nature |
237 |
31 Racist Arguments and IQ |
243 |
Part B Sociobiology |
32 Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determinism |
251 |
33 So Cleverly Kind an Animal |
260 |
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Epilogue |
268 |
Bibliography |
272 |
Index |
277 |