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Index
Cover
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Prologue
1 | HISTORY IN EVOLUTION
1 George Canning’s Left Buttock and the Origin of Species
2 Grimm’s Greatest Tale
3 The Creation Myths of Cooperstown
4 The Panda’s Thumb of Technology
2 | DINOMANIA
5 Bully for Brontosaurus
6 The Dinosaur Rip-off
3 | ADAPTATION
7 Of Kiwi Eggs and the Liberty Bell
8 Male Nipples and Clitoral Ripples
9 Not Necessarily a Wing
4 | FADS AND FALLACIES
10 The Case of the Creeping Fox Terrier Clone
11 Life’s Little Joke
12 The Chain of Reason versus the Chain of Thumbs
5 | ART AND SCIENCE
13 Madame Jeanette
14 Red Wings in the Sunset
15 Petrus Camper’s Angle
16 Literary Bias on the Slippery Slope
6 | DOWN UNDER
17 Glow, Big Glowworm
18 To Be a Platypus
19 Bligh’s Bounty
20 Here Goes Nothing
7 | INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY
21 In a Jumbled Drawer
22 Kropotkin Was No Crackpot
23 Fleeming Jenkin Revisited
24 The Passion of Antoine Lavoisier
25 The Godfather of Disaster
8 | EVOLUTION AND CREATION
26 Knight Takes Bishop?
27 Genesis and Geology
28 William Jennings Bryan’s Last Campaign
29 An Essay on a Pig Roast
30 Justice Scalia’s Misunderstanding
9 | NUMBERS AND PROBABILITY
31 The Streak of Streaks
32 The Median Isn’t the Message
33 The Ant and the Plant
10 | PLANETS AS PERSONS
34 The Face of Miranda
35 The Horn of Triton
Bibliography
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