Prologue |
13 |
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1. ZOONOMIA (AND EXCEPTIONS) |
Reversals |
1) The Flamingo's Smile |
23 |
2) Only His Wings Remained |
40 |
3) Sex and Size |
56 |
Boundaries |
4) Living with Connections |
64 |
5) A Most Ingenious Paradox |
78 |
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2. THEORY AND PERCEPTION |
Two Admirable Creationists |
6) Adam's Navel |
99 |
7) The Freezing of Noah |
114 |
The Cloven Hoofprint of Theory |
8) False Premise, Good Science |
126 |
9) For Want of a Metaphor |
139 |
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3. THE IMPORTANCE OF TAXONOMY |
10) Of Wasps and WASPs |
155 |
11) Opus 100 |
167 |
12) Human Equality Is a Contingent Fact of History |
185 |
13) The Rule of Five |
199 |
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4. TRENDS AND THEIR MEANING |
14) Losing the Edge |
215 |
Postscript: Strike Three for Babe |
225 |
15) Death and Transfiguration |
230 |
16) Reducing Riddles |
245 |
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5. POLITICS AND PROGRESS |
The Chain of Being |
17) To Show an Ape |
263 |
18) Bound by the Great Chain |
281 |
19) The Hottentot Venus |
291 |
Eugenics Past and Present |
20) Carrie Buck's Daughter |
306 |
21) Singapore's Patrimony (and Matrimony) |
319 |
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6. DARWINIANA |
22) Hannah West's Left Shoulder and the Origin of Natural Selection |
335 |
23) Darwin at Sea--and the Virtues of Port |
347 |
24) A Short Way to Corn |
360 |
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7. LIFE HERE AND ELSEWHERE |
25) Just in the Middle |
377 |
26) Mind and Supermind |
392 |
27) SETI and the Wisdom of Casey Stengel |
403 |
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8. EXTINCTION AND CONTINUITY |
28) Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs |
417 |
29) Continuity |
427 |
30) The Cosmic Dance of Siva |
438 |
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Bibliography |
451 |
Index |
459 |