Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

Table of contents

• Bully for Brontosaurus *
• Bully for Brontosaurus - Reflections in Natural History *
• Contents 7
• Prologue 11
• 1: History in Evolution *
• 1: George Canning's Left Buttock and the Origin of Species 21
• 2: Grimm's Greatest Tale 32
• 3: The Creation Myths of Cooperstown 42
• 4: The Panda's Thumb of Technology 59
• 2: Dinomania *
• 5: Bully for Brontosaurus 79
• 6: The Dinosaur Rip-Off 94
• 3: Adaptation *
• 7: Of Kiwi Eggs and the Liberty Bell 109
• 8: Male Nipples and Clitoral Ripples 124
• 9: Not Necessarily a Wing 139
• 4: Fads and Fallacies *
• 10: The Case of the Creeping Fox Terrier Clone 155
• 11: Life's Little Joke 168
• 12: The Chain of Reason Versus the Chain of Thumbs 182
• 5: Art and Science *
• 13: Madame Jeanette 201
• 14: Red Wings in the Sunset 209
• 15: Petrus Camper's Angle 229
• 16: Literary Bias on the Slippery Slope 241
• 6: Down Under *
• 17: Glow, Big Glowworm 255
• 18: To Be a Platypus 269
• 19: Bligh's Bounty 281
• 20: Here Goes Nothing 294
• 7: Intellectual Biography *
• 21: In a Jumbled Drawer 309
• 22: Kropotkin Was No Crackpot 325
• 23: Fleeming Jenkin Revisited 340
• 24: The Passion of Antoine Lavoisier 354
• 25: The Godfather of Disaster 367
• 8: Evolution and Creation *
• 26: Knight Takes Bishop? 385
• 27: Genesis and Geology 402
• 28: William Jennings Bryan's Last Campaign 416
• 29: An Essay on a Pig Roast 432
• 30: Justice Scalia's Misunderstanding 448
• 9: Numbers and Probability *
• 31: The Streak of Streaks 463
• 32: The Median Isn'T the Message 473
• 33: The Ant and the Plant 479
• 10: Planets as Persons *
• 34: The Face of Miranda 489
• 35: The Horn of Triton 499
• Bibliography 513
• Index 525

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