The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

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• The Panda's Thumb - More Reflections in Natural History *
• The Panda's Thumb - More Reflections in Natural History *
• Contents *
• The Panda's Thumb - More Reflections in Natural History *
• 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 *

• The Panda's Thumb - More Reflections in Natural History *
• The Panda's Thumb - More Reflections in Natural History *
• Contents *
• The Panda's Thumb - More Reflections in Natural History *
• 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 *
• References and Notes 285
• References and Notes 287
• 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 *
• Index *