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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
Where in the World Was Charles Robert Darwin?
The Darwin Dictionary
1. Hide & Seek
The Appendix
Did You See What I Saw?
Mummy Meds
False Diagnoses & Favored Folk Remedies
From Needle to Knife.
Sir Winston’s Triple Complaint
Form Follows Function.
After Words.
The Appendix.
2. Feathers & Fur
Body Hair
The Natural Nature of Our Hair.
The Tree of Human Life
Hair & Fur & Feathers
How We Lost Our Hair
Hair on Top
The Price of Male Facial Hair
Hair in the Middle
Hair Down There
Less Hair but Not Hair-less
3. The Tale of the Tailbone
The Coccyx
The Incredible Versatile Tail
Fascinating Far End Factoid
Getting By with No Tail at All
The Man Who Invented the Human Tail
Defects Associated with “Human Tail”
At the Tail End
Flowers & Funnies & Men with Tails
4. Ear Rings
The Auricular Muscles
Breathing Through Your Ears
How We Hear.
Smelly Ears = Smelly Armpits
Picturing the Pinna.
Muscle Mechanics.
5. Blink!
The Third Eyelid
What Richard Owen Wrote
Looking through the Lid
What You See Is What We’ve Got
The Human Eye Unmasked
The Very Human Version of a Third Eyelid.
Two Eyes. Four Lids. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Eyelids of the World
6. Pearly Whites
Wisdom Teeth
Fish Teeth & Darwin’s Finch
How Old Is Your Eon?
Missing Bone & Surplus Molars
Building & Keeping Human Teeth
The Last Bite.
Name That Tooth.
7. Dispensables
The One and Only Brain
Replaceable/Remediable
Transplantation Waiting List, United States, 12:14 PM, April 26, 2016
(Almost) Reliably Redundant
Useful but Dispensable
Four (Really Pretty Much) Useless Human Body Parts
One Indisputably Vestigial Organ
8. Future Man
Yes. No. Maybe.
The End of Evolution
The Next Evolution
Man Improving Man
Infant Mortality in the United States, 2010
Life Expectancy at Birth in the United States, 1900–2010
Fictional Futures.
Future Films
The Rise of Mr. Robot
9. Postscript
The Darwin Family Business
Development in Dress by George Herbert Darwin
About the Author
Endnotes
Index
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