The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

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Contents......Page __sk_0005.djvu
Prologue......Page __sk_0009.djvu
1 Perfection and Imperfection: A Trilogy an a Panda\'s Thumb......Page __sk_0015.djvu
1 The Panda\'s Thumb......Page __sk_0017.djvu
2 Senseless Signs of History......Page __sk_0025.djvu
3 Double Trouble......Page __sk_0033.djvu
2 Darwiniana......Page __sk_0043.djvu
4 Natural Selection and the Human Brain: Darwin VS. Wallace......Page __sk_0045.djvu
5 Darwin\'s Middle Road......Page __sk_0057.djvu
6 Death before Birth, or a Mite\'s Nunc Dimittis......Page __sk_0067.djvu
7 Shades of Lamarck......Page __sk_0074.djvu
8 Caring Groups and Selfish Genes......Page __sk_0083.djvu
3 Human Evolution......Page __sk_0091.djvu
9 A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse......Page __sk_0093.djvu
10 Piltdown Revisited......Page __sk_0106.djvu
11 Our Greatest Evolutionary Step......Page __sk_0123.djvu
12 In the Midst of Life......Page __sk_0132.djvu
4 Science and Politics of Human Differences......Page __sk_0141.djvu
13 Wide Hats and Narrow Minds......Page __sk_0143.djvu
14 Women\'s Brains......Page __sk_0150.djvu
15 Dr. Down\'s Syndrome......Page __sk_0158.djvu
16 Flaws in a Victorian Veil......Page __sk_0167.djvu
5 The Pace of Change......Page __sk_0175.djvu
17 The Episodic Nature of Evolutionary Change......Page __sk_0177.djvu
18 Return of the Hopeful Monster......Page __sk_0184.djvu
19 The Great Scablands Debate......Page __sk_0192.djvu
20 A Quahog Is a Quahog......Page __sk_0202.djvu
6 Early Life......Page __sk_0213.djvu
21 An Early Start......Page __sk_0215.djvu
22 Crazy Old Randolph Kirkpatrick......Page __sk_0225.djvu
23 Bathybius and Eozoon......Page __sk_0234.djvu
24 Might We Fit Inside a Sponge\'s Cell......Page __sk_0243.djvu
7 They Were Despised and Rejected......Page __sk_0255.djvu
25 Were Dinosaurs Dumb?......Page __sk_0257.djvu
26 The Telltale Wishbone......Page __sk_0265.djvu
27 Nature\'s Odd Couples......Page __sk_0276.djvu
28 Sticking up for Marsupials......Page __sk_0287.djvu
8 Size and Time......Page __sk_0295.djvu
29 Our Allotted Lifetimes......Page __sk_0297.djvu
30 Natural Attraction: Bacteria, The Birds and The Bees......Page __sk_0304.djvu
31 Time\'s Vastness......Page __sk_0313.djvu
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Index......Page __sk_0329.djvu