The Enigma of Evolution and the Challenge of Chance (eBook)

Part I : Before 1850 - Thoughts on Evolution before Darwin
Chapter 1 : Turning the Universe Upside Down
Chapter 2 : The Birth of Evolutionary Theory
Chapter 3 : Darwin's 'Great' Grandfather
Chapter 4 : Lost in Translation
Chapter 5 : Lamarck's Aim
Chapter 6 : Hitting the Mark
Chapter 7 : French Resistance
Chapter 8 : On Paley's Watch
Chapter 9 : Moving Blythly Forward
Chapter 10 : Vestiges of Unity
Part II : Before 1900 - Darwin's theory and its reception
Chapter 11 : Laying the Foundations
Chapter 12 : On Origin of Species
Chapter 13 : Journey's End
Chapter 14 : Two Minds But a Single Thought
Chapter 15 : From Inception to Deception
Chapter 16 : Abstract Thinking
Chapter 17 : With a little Bit of Help from his Friends
Chapter 18 : Darwin’s protegé
Chapter 19 : Reactions to Darwin’s TheoryPart III : Before 1950 - Application of Darwin’s
Theory and its Ramifications
Chapter 20 : Germ Plasm and Immortality
Chapter 21 : The Birth of Genetics
Chapter 22 : The Spread of Change
Chapter 23 : Change of Mind, Change of Heart
Chapter 24 : The Rise and Rise of Humanism
Chapter 25 : Darwinism in Practice
Chapter 26 : Plenty of Scope 
Chapter 27 : Humans - Ancient and Modern
Chapter 28 : The Mathematics ofEvolution
Part IV : Towards 2000 - All roads lead to Darwin
Chapter 29 : Evolutionary Synthesis
Chapter 30 : A ‘Noo’ Theoryof Evolution
Chapter 31 : The Mystery of the East
Chapter 32 : Rediscovering Our Origins
Chapter 33 : Multiregional Evolution 
Chapter 34 : Six Degrees of Separation 
Chapter 35 : Punctuated Equilibrium
Chapter 36 : Chromosomes
Chapter 37 : The Rise and Fall of the Hapless Neanderthals
Chapter 38 : Lost for Words 
Part V : Beyond 2000 - Truth - the Daughter of Time?
Chapter 39 : Palæolithic People of Portly Proportions 
Chapter 40 : Dishing Up theFat of the Land Chapter 41 : Where there’s fire, there’s smoke 
Chapter 42 : The Light End ofthe Spectrum 
Chapter 43 : How Human(e) were H. Erectus?
Chapter 44 : Irreducible Complexity 
Chapter 45 : Reversing ‘Scopes’ 
Chapter 46 : Dominant Genes
Chapter 47 : Is God a Delusion? 
Chapter 48 : A Never-Ending Story
Chapter 49 : Onwards and Upwards
Appendices
I Extracts from The World of Life by A. Wallace (1910)
II Wallace's Sarawak 'Lzaw paper (1855)
III Wallace's Ternate paper (1858) 
IV Darwin's letter to Asa Gray 1857
V Freud's first paper read Vienna April
VI The Meagre Menu of Mawson and Mertz