EVOLUTION FOR EVERYONE --- HOW DARWIN'S THEORY CAN CHANGE THE WAY WE THINK
ABOUT OUR LIVES by David Sloan Wilson. Delacorte Press/Bantam Dell, 2006
1) The future can differ from the past (p1-10)
2) Clearing the deck (p11-16)
3) A third way of thinking (p17-21)
4) Prove it! (p22-27)
5) Be careful what you wish for (p28-35)
6) Monkey madness (p36-41)
7) How the dog got its curly tail (p42-50)
8) Dancing with ghosts (p51-57)
9) What is the function of a can opener? How do you know? (p58-62)
10) Your apprentice license (p63-66)
11) Welcome home, prodigal son (p67-73)
12) Teaching the experts (p74-81)
13) Murder city (p82-91)
14) How I learned to stop worrying and love genetic determinism (p92-99)
15) They've got personality! (p100-114)
16) The beauty of Abraham Lincoln (p115-124)
17) Love thy neighbor microbe (p125-132)
18) Groups all the way down (p133-138)
19) Divided we fall (p139-143)
20) Winged minds (p144-152)
21) The egalitarian ape (p153-164)
22) Across the cooperation divide (p165-172)
23) The first laugh (p173-181)
24) The vital rats (p182-193)
25) Dr. Doolittle was right (p194-201)
26) How many inventors does it take to make a lightbulb? (p202-214)
27) I don't know how it works! (p215-232)
28) Darwin's "cathedral" (p233-253)
29) Is there anyone out there? Is there anyone up there? (p254-267)
30) Ayn Rand --- religious zealot (p268-282)
31) The "social intelligence" of nations, or, need not apply (p283-295)
32) Mr. Beeper (p296-304)
33) The ecology of "good and evil" (p305-312)
34) Bon voyage (p344-350)
35) The return of the "amateur scientist" (p322-343)
36) Bon voyage (p334-350)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (p351-352)
NOTES (p353-363)
BIBLIOGRAPHY (p367-380)
WEB SITES (p381)
INDEX (p255-258)
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