Contents

Cover

About the Author

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

PART ONE: OCCAM’S CASTLE

        ONE   From So Simple a Beginning

       TWO   The White-Eyed Fly

     THREE   What Is Life?

       FOUR   The Finger of the Angel

        FIVE   A New Study, and a Dark Corner

PART TWO: KONOPKA’S LAW

        SIX   First Light

    SEVEN   First Choice

    EIGHT   First Time

      NINE   First Love

       TEN   First Memory

PART THREE: PICKETT’S CHARGE

    ELEVEN   The Drosophila Arms

    TWELVE   Cloning an Instinct

  THIRTEEN   Reading an Instinct

 FOURTEEN   Singed Wings

    FIFTEEN   The Lord’s Masterpiece

    SIXTEEN   Pavlov’s Hat

SEVENTEEN   Rough Mountain

  EIGHTEEN   The Knot of Our Condition

  NINETEEN   Pickett’s Charge

Notes

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits