Contents -- Come Seven -- Part One: Heaven and Earth -- 1. Happy Thoughts On a Sunny Day in New York City -- 2. Dousing Diminutive Dennis's Debate (or DDD = 2000) -- 3. The Celestial Mechanic and the Earthly Naturalist -- 4. The Late Birth of a Flat Earth -- Part Two: Literature and Science -- 5. The Monster's Human Nature -- 6. The Tooth and Claw Centennial -- 7. Sweetness and Light -- Part Three: Origin, Stability, and Extiction -- Origin -- 8. In the Mind of the Beholder -- 9. Of Tongue Worms, Velvet Worms, and Water Bears -- Stability -- 10. Cordelia's Dilemma -- 11. Lucy on the Earth in Stasis -- Extinction -- 12. Dinosaur in a Haystack -- 13. Jove's Thunderbolts -- Part Four: Writing about Snails -- 14. Poe's Greatest hit -- 15. The Invisible Woman -- 16. Left Snails and Right Minds -- Part Five: The glory of Museums -- 17. Dinomania -- 18. Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O! -- 19. Evolution by Walking -- 20. The Razumovsky Duet -- 21. Four Antelopes of the Apocalypse -- Part Six: Disparate faces of Eugenes -- 22. Does the Stoneless Plum instruct the thinking Reed? -- 23. The Smoking Gun of Eugenics -- 24. The Most Unkindest Cut of All -- Part Seven: Evolutionary Theory, Evolutionary Stories -- Theory -- 25. Can We Complete Darwin's Revolutionary Stories -- 26. A Humongous Fungus Among us -- 27. Speaking of Snails and Scales -- Stories -- 28. Hooking Leviathan by Its Past -- 29. A Special Fondness for Beetles -- 30. If Kings Can Be Hermits, Then We are All Monkeys' Uncles -- 31. Magnolias from Moscow -- Part Eight: Linnaeus and Darwin's Grandfather -- 32. The First Unmasking of Nature -- 33. Ordering Nature by Budding and Full-Breasted Sexuality -- 34. Four Metaphors in three Generations -- Bibliography -- Index.