| Foreword |
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| What counts as a great work? |
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| Reading this guide |
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| A note about quotations |
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| A great work: Charles Darwin's Origins of Species |
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| Introduction: Glimpses of Darwin |
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1 | (1) |
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A brief outline of this guide |
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3 | (1) |
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4 | (11) |
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4 | (2) |
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6 | (3) |
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9 | (3) |
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Gaze and language: the structure of the Origin |
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12 | (3) |
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The Author of The Origin-A Modern Seer |
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15 | (12) |
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The growth of a scientist's gaze |
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15 | (7) |
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Key intellectual influences |
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22 | (2) |
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Becoming the author of the Origin |
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24 | (3) |
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27 | (19) |
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27 | (10) |
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The pigeon's eyelid: a Darwinian example |
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37 | (4) |
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41 | (5) |
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The Darwinian Explanation |
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46 | (19) |
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Explanation 1: The struggle argument |
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46 | (11) |
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Explanation 2: The narrative of natural selection |
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57 | (8) |
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65 | (23) |
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Darwin as scientific prophet |
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65 | (1) |
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66 | (3) |
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69 | (4) |
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73 | (6) |
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79 | (1) |
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80 | (8) |
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88 | (7) |
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88 | (2) |
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90 | (5) |
| References and Further Reading |
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95 | (2) |
| Index |
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