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Tables of Contents for Dear Mr Darwin
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The Twin Peaks
1
23
The Leicester connection
2
2
Taking your name in vain
4
1
Sublime yet pathetic
5
2
Time to move on
7
1
`Natural sorting'
8
2
The monk in his garden
10
2
The genetic lottery
12
2
The case against the hopeful monster
14
1
Mendel to the rescue
15
2
Almost but not quite
17
1
Barbara's jumping genes
18
1
A sneak preview
19
5
The Rise and Fall of the Mobile P Gene
24
14
The P elements are coming
26
3
A simple case of molecular drive
29
1
Molecular drive and natural selection: a mutual accommodation
29
3
First come, first served
32
1
A simple case of molecular coevolution
33
5
When is an Adaptation Not an Adaptation?
38
11
The evolution of bat-eared foxes by means of television
38
2
Exaptations and adoptations: a brief introduction
40
3
Honing locks and keys
43
1
Just-so storytelling
44
1
We are selected, therefore we are
45
1
A solution looking for problems
45
4
The Ignorant Gene
49
18
Evolution as ideology
49
1
Anti-Dawkins
49
1
One step forward, two steps back
50
1
Where did Dawkins go wrong?
51
1
The `paradox of the organism'
52
1
Yes, we have no paradox
53
1
Who reproduces?
54
2
Long live the ephemeral phenotype!
56
1
No genetic blueprints
57
1
Unoccupied space: natural or unnatural?
58
1
We are all monsters now
59
2
Not improbable and not perfect
61
6
Is Dawkins Aware of the Error of His Ways?
67
10
Genetic bookkeeping
67
2
Good cop, bad cop
69
1
Selfish-genery is not the same as selfish DNA
70
1
Do the laws of physics and chemistry get in the way of biology?
71
2
Slowing down evolution?
73
4
Genetic Turnover; Of Course, Of Course
77
15
If it's your DNA, you won't get away
79
1
Train swopping
79
4
I'll show you mine, if you show me yours
83
1
Genetic homogenization and concerted evolution
84
2
Keeping it all in the family
86
1
`Give them something to do'
86
4
The two-step process of evolution
90
2
Molecular Drive for Advanced Players
92
9
Genetic buffers
93
1
Bringing in selection at a later stage
94
1
Is the chromosome a natural barrier to homogenization?
95
1
Like ripples in a pool
95
1
Molecular drive at the population level
96
1
All in the same boat
96
5
Molecular Coevolution
101
17
What's in a name?
101
1
Getting there, without being pushed
102
1
Biased systems: we have ways of making you go
103
2
Molecular drive and meiotic drive are not the same thing
105
1
Molecular drive and selfish DNA are not the same thing
105
1
Welcome selection
106
1
The case of the duff gene
107
1
The evolution of tolerance
107
1
Regulating genes by TRAM
108
3
The evolution of solt-machines
111
2
Me and Francis Crick
113
5
The Mystery of Mysteries
118
12
An origin of species?
119
1
Love songs and species
120
1
Concerted evolution in the period gene
121
1
Period turnover
122
1
Molecular coevolution in period genes
122
6
Is period a general or special case?
128
2
Biological Barriers
130
7
The misappropriation of natural selection in the definition of individuality
130
2
How many roads must a species travel?
132
1
Odysseus leads the way
133
4
Sex -- A New Perspective
137
11
The basis of stasis
138
2
Sex makes the world go round
140
2
Five thousand, but who's counting?
142
1
The first sexual act
143
5
HOX! HOX! HOX!
148
35
`There is, philosophically speaking, only one animal'
149
2
The first signs: shock, horror!
151
2
Beyond head, middle and tail
153
1
Masters and slaves
154
1
Promiscuous genes
155
1
Serial transformations
156
1
Putting it all together by modules
157
4
Before and after Hox
161
1
A mess, but it works
161
1
From 0 to 14 in four hours
162
1
Getting lost in the net
163
1
Extending the net
164
2
Hox is everywhere
166
1
Looking for molecular coevolution in development
167
1
Another example
168
2
The eyes have it
170
3
How do alliances shift?
173
4
It's all in the mess
177
2
One hundred, but who's counting?
179
2
Are legs exaptations?
181
1
Back to Newton
182
1
Two Minutes That Shook the World
183
14
Football versus chess
188
3
Universal selection?
191
1
Do we really understand the laws of physics?
192
5
Born to Adopt
197
25
Looking for the eternal
199
3
Pulling one's leg
202
1
Same genes; same story; different outcomes
203
2
Swopping regulatory circuits: simple to do, profound in effect
205
1
Making Hox more subtle
206
1
Centipedes, snakes and butterflies
207
2
Centipedes and lavatory rolls
209
1
Adoptations: a missing term in the science of form
210
1
A brief memo
211
2
Back to centipedes
213
1
Singing from the same hymn sheet
213
1
Choosing the environment
214
1
Adoptational landscapes
215
1
Keeping left!
216
6
The unknowability of DNA
222
10
Three into one won't go
223
3
A psychological difficulty
226
1
Darwin's finches: what we know and what we don't know
227
2
An operational tall order
229
3
The Evolution of Individuality
232
12
Determined to death
232
1
Tossing human nature
233
2
Predicting with hindsight
235
1
Extrapolating from nothing to nothing
235
1
The hunt for `universals'
236
1
There's no such thing as an average human
237
1
No one is normal
238
1
There's more to human nature than adaptations
239
1
We are individuals not groups
239
1
Human cloning: you cannot recreate yourself
240
2
No nature, no nurture, just Chaliapin
242
2
Glossary
244
11
Further Reading
255
8
Index
263