Introduction: Pieces of Eight: Confession of a Humanistic Naturalist
1 The Upwardly Mobile Fossils of Leonardo's Living Earth
2 The Great Western and the Fighting Temeraire
3 Seeing Eye to Eye, Through a Glass Clearly
4 The Clam Stripped Bare by Her Naturalists, Even
5 Darwin's American Soulmate: A Bird's-Eye View
6 A Seahorse for All Races
7 Mr. Sophia's Pony
8 Up Against a Wall
9 A Lesson from the Old Masters
10 Our Unusual Unity
11 A Cerion for Christopher
12 The Dodo in the Caucus Race
13 The Diet of Worms and the Defenestration of Prague
14 Non-Overlapping Magisteria
15 Boyle's Law and Darwin's Details
16 The Tallest Tale
17 Brotherhood by Inversion (or, As the Worm Turns)
18 War of the Worldviews
19 Triumph of the Root-Heads
20 Can We Truly Know Sloth and Rapacity?
21 Reversing Established Orders
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index