Content
The book is divided into seven sections as follows:
1 Science and Sensibility– essays largely concerning science and the scientific method.
- 1.1 A Devil's Chaplain
- 1.2 What is True?
- 1.3 Gaps in the Mind
- 1.4 Science, Genetics and Ethics: Memo for Tony Blair
- 1.5 Trial By Jury
- 1.6 Crystalline Truth and Crystal Balls
- 1.7 Postmodernism Disrobed
- 1.8 The Joy of Living Dangerously; Sanderson of Oundle
2 Light Will Be Thrown– essays on Darwinian topics.
- 2.1 Light Will Be Thrown
- 2.2 Darwin Triumphant
- 2.3 The 'Information Challenge'
- 2.4 Genes Aren't Us
- 2.5 Son of Moore's Law
3 The Infected Mind– a selection of anti-religious writings.
- 3.1 Chinese Junk and Chinese Whispers
- 3.2 Viruses of the Mind
- 3.3 The Great Convergence
- 3.4 Dolly and the Cloth Heads
- 3.5 Time to Stand Up
4 They Told Me, Heraclitus– some eulogies for late friends.
- 4.1 Lament for Douglas
- 4.2 Eulogy for Douglas Adams
- 4.3 Eulogy for W. D. Hamilton
- 4.4 Snake Oil
5 Even the Ranks of Tuscany– a section devoted to the late Stephen Jay Gould.
- 5.1 Rejoicing in Multifarious Nature
- 5.2 The Art of the Developable
- 5.3 Hallucigenia, Wiwaxia and Friends (A review of Stephen Jay Gould's Wonderful Life)
- 5.4 Human Chauvinism and Evolutionary Progress
- 5.5 Unfinished Correspondence with a Darwinian Heavyweight
6 There is All Africa and her Prodigies in Us– essays connected with Africa.
- 6.1 Ecology of Genes
- 6.2 Out of the Soul of Africa
- 6.3 I Speak of Africa and Golden Joys
- 6.4 Heroes and Ancestors
7 A Prayer for My Daughter– an open letter to Dawkins' daughter Juliet (to whom the book is dedicated), concerning the importance of evaluating evidence.
- 7.1 Good and Bad Reasons for Believing
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