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Index
Cover
BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD IN NORTON PAPERBACK
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Prologue
1 | PERFECTION AND IMPERFECTION: A TRILOGY ON A PANDA’S THUMB
1 The Panda’s Thumb
2 Senseless Signs of History
3 Double Trouble
2 | DARWINIANA
4 Natural Selection and the Human Brain: Darwin vs. Wallace
5 Darwin’s Middle Road
6 Death before Birth, or a Mite’s Nunc Dimittis
7 Shades of Lamarck
8 Caring Groups and Selfish Genes
3 | HUMAN EVOLUTION
9 A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse
10 Piltdown Revisited
11 Our Greatest Evolutionary Step
12 In the Midst of Life…
4 | SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF HUMAN DIFFERENCES
13 Wide Hats and Narrow Minds
14 Women’s Brains
15 Dr. Down’s Syndrome
16 Flaws in a Victorian Veil
5 | THE PACE OF CHANGE
17 The Episodic Nature of Evolutionary Change
18 Return of the Hopeful Monster
19 The Great Scablands Debate
20 A Quahog Is a Quahog
6 | EARLY LIFE
21 An Early Start
22 Crazy Old Randolph Kirkpatrick
23 Bathybius and Eozoon
24 Might We Fit Inside a Sponge’s Cell
7 | THEY WERE DESPISED AND REJECTED
25 Were Dinosaurs Dumb?
26 The Telltale Wishbone
27 Nature’s Odd Couples
28 Sticking up for Marsupials
8 | SIZE AND TIME
29 Our Allotted Lifetimes
30 Natural Attraction: Bacteria, The Birds and The Bees
31 Time’s Vastness
Bibliography
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