Perfection and imperfection: a trilogy on a panda’s thumb : The panda’s thumb -- Senseless signs of history -- Double trouble -- Darwiniana : Natural selection and the human brain: Darwin vs. Wallace -- Darwin’s middle road -- Death before birth, or a mite’s Nunc dimittis -- Shades of Lamarck -- Caring groups and selfish genes -- Human evolution : A biological homage to Mickey Mouse -- Piltdown revisited -- Our greatest evolutionary step -- In the midst of life… -- Science and politics of human differences : Wide hats and narrow minds -- Women’s brains -- Dr. Down’s syndrome -- Flaws in a Victorian veil -- The pace of change : The episodic nature of evolutionary change -- Return of the hopeful monster -- The great scablands debate -- A quahog is a quahog -- Early life : An early start -- Crazy old Randolph Kirkpatrick -- Bathybius and eozoon -- Might we fit inside a sponge’s cell -- They were despised and rejected : Were dinosaurs dumb? -- The telltale wishbone -- Nature’s odd couples -- Sticking up for marsupials -- Size and time : Our allotted lifetimes -- Natural attraction: bacteria, the birds and the bees -- Time’s vastness.
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