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Index
Preface: Studying Life and Living It
Chapter 1: From Mathematics to Viet Nam War Vet to Unemployed
I Am a Viet Nam War Vet
The Day of the Evaluation
Did I Have Homosexual Tendencies?
4-F
Chapter 2: Bill Drury, the Man Who Taught Me How to Think
Counter-Cultural to the Core
Talking to Birds in Their Language
Jealous Pigeons
My One Trip to the Arctic
I Get to Know Some Locals
Back to Bill Drury
Chapter 3: Memories of Ernst Mayr
First Meeting
First Class
The Key Reference
He Was a Loving Man
Ernst as a Moral Compass
Ernst Appears to Me in a Dream
“I Have to Die of Something”
Chapter 4: I Become a Lizard Man in Jamaica
The Highly Cryptic Anolis Valencienni
I Become a Green Lizard Freak
Lizards as Objects of Terror
Whistling a Male Green Lizard into Sexual Paranoia
Two Penises
Female Choice or Male Coercion?
Falling Into a Pit
The Lizard in Me
Chapter 5: Tried for Assault Occasioning Bodily Harm
The Fight
The Trial
Jasper’s False Witness
Jasper Attacks Little Man
Me Say “That Bob Is a Shit”
Chapter 6: The Death of Flo
All-Male Langur Troops
The Death of Flo
Chimpanzee Deception
Parental Discipline in Baboons
Hunting With Hunting Dogs
Pelican Cooperative Hunting in Senegal
Chapter 7: Robbed at Gunpoint in East Kingston
I Join an Armed Robbery in Progress
“Where de Money Deh?”
I Make Good My Escape
The Rollington Town Police Station
I Return With the Police
A Socialist Robbery?
The Village Club in the 1980s
Chapter 8: Glenroy Ramsey: Master Lizard Catcher
He Only Looked for Their Eyes
Letting Ganja Open up Your Eyes
Glenroy Attacks the Very Foundation of Science
Self-Deception Nearly Takes Us Over a Cliff
Glenroy Catches a Crocodile by Hand
What to Do When a Crocodile Comes Straight at You?
Chapter 9: Jamaican Murders most Frequent and most Foul
The Link
A Very Bitter Murder
Police Murders
The Green Bay Massacre
“My Time Come!”
The Night Peter Tosh Died
The Man Who Took the Fall
Whatever
Chapter 10: The Murder of James ‘Be-be’ Bent
“Be-be Is Dead!”
Donald
The Death Yard
My Encounter With Gladys Before Be-be’s Murder
Gladys’s Story
“Tonight I am going to kill Be-be”
How the Actual Murder Went Down
The Fate of Gladys
Chapter 11: Hanging with Huey
The Trick of the Panthers
First Meeting
A Day with Huey
My First Night Out With Huey
An Armed Robbery Leads to Protecting Children on Their Way Home From School
Guns and Black People
Animal Imagery
Dummying Up
Huey’s Dark Side
The Killing of Huey P. Newton
Chapter 12: Under Arrest
Arrest in New Mexico for Multiple Driving Offenses
“Have these boys been drinking?”
Riding on Susie’s hood
Under Arrest by the Guardia Nacional in Panama City
DUI in California
Ten days Locked Up at Half Way Tree, Kingston
Judge McIntosh
The Pocket Bible
The Day of My Release
Chapter 13: Vignettes of Famous Evolutionary Biologists, Large and Small
Richard Dawkins
W. D. Hamilton
Stephen Jay Gould
George C. Williams
Chapter 14: Ambivalence About Jamaica
G Spends Seven Years in Prison for a Crime He Did Not Commit
Jamaican Homophobia
Jamaican Misogyny
Surviving an Armed Home Invasion Robbery
Jamaican Humor
Chapter 15: Looking Back and Looking Forward
The Way Forward
Burial Plans
Acknowledgements
About the Author
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