Synopsis
The book is divided into 13 chapters spanning over 400 pages, and includes an appendix called "The History-Deniers" in the end material.
- Only a Theory? (Nature of scientific theory and fallibility)
- Dogs, Cows and Cabbages (Artificial Selection)
- The Primrose Path to Macro-Evolution
- Silence and Slow Time (Discusses the Age of the Earth and the Geological Time Scale)
- Before Our Very Eyes (Examples of Evolution Observed)
- Missing link? What do you mean, 'Missing'? (the fossil record)
- Missing persons? Missing no longer (Human Evolution)
- You did it yourself in nine months (a statement attributed to J. B. S. Haldane; discusses developmental biology)
- The ark of the continents (biogeography and plate tectonics)
- The tree of cousinship (the tree of life, homology and analogy)
- History written all over us (vestigiality and unintelligent design)
- Arms races and 'evolutionary theodicy' (coevolution and evolutionary arms races)
- There is grandeur in this view of life (based on the final passage of On the Origin of Species)
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