Introduction: Pieces of Eight: Confession of a Humanistic Naturalist | p. 1 |
Art and Science | |
The Upwardly Mobile Fossils of Leonardo's Living Earth | p. 17 |
The Great Western and the Fighting Temeraire | p. 45 |
Seeing Eye to Eye, Through a Glass Clearly | p. 57 |
Biographies in Evolution | |
The Clam Stripped Bare by Her Naturalists, Even | p. 77 |
Darwin's American Soulmate: A Bird's-Eye View | p. 99 |
A Seahorse for All Races | p. 119 |
Mr. Sophia's Pony | p. 141 |
Human Prehistory | |
Up Against a Wall | p. 161 |
A Lesson from the Old Masters | p. 179 |
Our Unusual Unity | p. 197 |
Of History and Toleration | |
A Cerion for Christopher | p. 215 |
The Dodo in the Caucus Race | p. 231 |
The Diet of Worms and the Defenestration of Prague | p. 251 |
Evolutionary Facts and Theories | |
Non-Overlapping Magisteria | p. 269 |
Boyle's Law and Darwin's Details | p. 285 |
The Tallest Tale | p. 301 |
Brotherhood by Inversion (or, As the Worm Turns) | p. 319 |
Different Perceptions of Common Truths | |
War of the Worldviews | p. 339 |
Triumph of the Root-Heads | p. 355 |
Can We Truly Know Sloth and Rapacity? | p. 375 |
Reversing Established Orders | p. 393 |
Bibliography | p. 405 |
Illustration Credits | p. 412 |
Index | p. 414 |
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