| 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 |