Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History

Contents
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Come Seven
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Part One: Heaven and Earth
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1. Happy Thoughts On a Sunny Day in New York City
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2. Dousing Diminutive Dennis's Debate (or DDD = 2000)
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3. The Celestial Mechanic and the Earthly Naturalist
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4. The Late Birth of a Flat Earth
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Part Two: Literature and Science
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5. The Monster's Human Nature
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6. The Tooth and Claw Centennial
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7. Sweetness and Light 
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Part Three: Origin, Stability, and Extiction
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Origin
......Page 108
8. In the Mind of the Beholder
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9. Of Tongue Worms, Velvet Worms, and Water Bears
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Stability 
......Page 138
10. Cordelia's Dilemma
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11. Lucy on the Earth in Stasis
......Page 150
Extinction
......Page 162
12. Dinosaur in a Haystack......Page 164
13. Jove's Thunderbolts
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Part Four: Writing about Snails 
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14. Poe's Greatest hit
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15. The Invisible Woman
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16. Left Snails and Right Minds
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Part Five: The glory of Museums
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17. Dinomania
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18. Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O!
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19. Evolution by Walking
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20. The Razumovsky Duet
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21. Four Antelopes of the Apocalypse
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Part Six: Disparate faces of Eugenes
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22. Does the Stoneless Plum instruct the thinking Reed?
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23. The Smoking Gun of Eugenics
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24. The Most Unkindest Cut of All
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Part Seven: Evolutionary Theory, Evolutionary Stories
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Theory
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25. Can We Complete Darwin's Revolutionary Stories
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26. A Humongous  Fungus Among us
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27. Speaking of Snails and Scales
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Stories
......Page 374
28. Hooking Leviathan by Its Past
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29. A Special Fondness for Beetles
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30. If Kings Can Be Hermits, Then We are All Monkeys' Uncles
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31. Magnolias from Moscow......Page 418
Part Eight: Linnaeus and Darwin's Grandfather
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32. The First Unmasking of Nature
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33. Ordering Nature by Budding and Full-Breasted Sexuality
......Page 444
34. Four Metaphors in three Generations
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Bibliography
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Index
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