Preface | p. 1 |
Pausing in Continuity | |
I Have Landed | p. 13 |
Disciplinary Connections: Scientific Slouching Across a Misconceived Divide | |
No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts: The Lepidoptery of Vladimir Nabokov | p. 29 |
Jim Bowie's Letter and Bill Buckner's Legs | p. 54 |
The True Embodiment of Everything That's Excellent | p. 71 |
Art Meets Science in The Heart of the Andes: Church Paints, Humboldt Dies, Darwin Writes, and Nature Blinks in the Fateful Year of 1859 | p. 90 |
Darwinian Prequels and Fallout | |
The Darwinian Gentleman at Marx's Funeral: Resolving Evolution's Oddest Coupling | p. 113 |
The Pre-Adamite in a Nutshell | p. 130 |
Freud's Evolutionary Fantasy | p. 147 |
Essays in the Paleontology of Ideas | |
The Jew and the Jewstone | p. 161 |
When Fossils Were Young | p. 175 |
Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis | p. 192 |
Casting the Die: Six Evolutionary Epitomes | |
Defending Evolution | |
Darwin and the Munchkins of Kansas | p. 213 |
Darwin's More Stately Mansion | p. 216 |
A Darwin for All Reasons | p. 219 |
Evolution and Human Nature | |
When Less Is Truly More | p. 225 |
Darwin's Cultural Degree | p. 229 |
The Without and Within of Smart Mice | p. 233 |
The Meaning and Drawing of Evolution | |
Defining and Beginning | |
What Does the Dreaded "E" Word Mean Anyway? | p. 241 |
The First Day of the Rest of Our Life | p. 257 |
The Narthex of San Marco and the Pangenetic Paradigm | p. 271 |
Parsing and Proceeding | |
Linnaeus's Luck? | p. 287 |
Abscheulich! (Atrocious) | p. 305 |
Tales of a Feathered Tail | p. 321 |
Natural Worth | |
An Evolutionary Perspective on the Concept of Native Plants | p. 335 |
Age-Old Fallacies of Thinking and Stinking | p. 347 |
The Geometer of Race | p. 356 |
The Great Physiologist of Heidelberg | p. 367 |
Triumph and Tragedy on the Exact Centennial of I Have Landed, September 11, 2001 | |
Introductory Statement | p. 387 |
The Good People of Halifax | p. 389 |
Apple Brown Betty | p. 393 |
The Woolworth Building | p. 396 |
September 11, '01 | p. 399 |
Illustration Credits | p. 402 |
Index | p. 404 |
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