Table of Contents for Ever Since Darwin

Prologue 11
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
Epilogue 268
Bibliography 272
Index 277