Eight Little Piggies - Contents

Contents

  • A Reflective Prologue
    1. The Scale of Extinction
      1. Unenchanted Evening
      2. The Golden Rule: A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis
      3. Losing a Limpet
    2. Odd Bits of Vertebrate Anatomy
      1. Eight Little Piggies
      2. Bent Out of Shape
      3. An Earful of Jaw
      4. Full of Hot Air
    3. Vox Populi
      Evolving Visions
      1. Men of the Thirty-Third Division: An Essay on Integrity
      2. Darwin and Paley meet the Invisible Hand
      3. More Light on Leaves

      Time in Newton's Century

      1. On Rereading Edmund Halley
      2. Fall in the House of Ussher
    4. Musings
      Clouds of Memory
      1. Muller Bros. Moving and Storage
      2. Shoemaker and Morning Star

      Authenticity

      1. In Touch with Walcott
      2. Counters and Cable Cars
    5. Human Nature
      1. Mozart and Modularity
      2. The Moral State of Tahiti—and of Darwin
      3. Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness
      4. The Declining Empire of Apes
    6. Grand Patterns of Evolution
      Two Steps Towards a General Theory of Life's Complexity
      1. The Wheel of Fortune and the Wedge of Progress
      2. Tires to Sandals

      New Discoveries in the Earliest History of Multicellular Life

      1. Defending the Heretical and the Superfluous
      2. The Reversal of Hallucigenia
    7. Revising and Extending Darwin
      1. What the Immaculate Pigeon Teaches the Burdened Mind
      2. The Great Seal Principle
      3. A Dog's Life in Galton's Polyhedron
      4. Betting on Chance—And No Fair Peeking
    8. Reversals-Fragments of a Book not Written
      1. Shields of Expectation—And Actuality
      2. A Tale of Three Pictures
      3. A Foot Soldier for Evolution
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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