Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 An Ugly Toad and an Elegant Man 11
Chapter 2 How We Learned to Roll Uphill 23
Chapter 3 Life As We Knew It 42
Chapter 4 Life As We Know It Now 54
Chapter 5 Why Aren't Identical Twins Actually Identical? 75
Chapter 6 The Sins of the Fathers 97
Chapter 7 The Generations Game 115
Chapter 8 The Battle of the Sexes 129
Chapter 9 Generation X 152
Chapter 10 The Message is Not the Medium 178
Chapter 11 Fighting the Enemy Within 205
Chapter 12 All in the Mind 233
Chapter 13 The Downhill Slope 262
Chapter 14 Long Live the Queen 282
Chapter 15 The Green Revolution 293
Chapter 16 The Ways Ahead 304
Notes 313
Glossary 325
Index 329