Contents -- PART I: EVOLUTION AND MORPHOLOGY -- 1. Evolution and Revolution -- Two Worldviews -- Revolution to Evolution -- Lamarckian Myths -- Simple to Complex -- Disconnecting the Unity of Life -- The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate -- 2. The Origin -- When Making Other Plans -- Darwin's Bible -- The Beagle Voyage -- Natural Selection and Natural Theology -- Wallace's Manuscript -- Concepts of The Origin -- 3. Darwin's Champions -- Man's Place in Nature -- Natural Theology and Agnosticism -- Archetype and Idealism -- Ontogeny and Phylogeny -- Materialism for Mysticism -- 4. Darwinism and Sociopolitical Thought -- Laissez-faire -- Social Darwinism Exported -- War and Racism -- Darwinism on the Left -- Was Darwin a Social Darwinist? -- Social Theory in Evolution -- The Division of Labor -- Darwin and Malthus -- 5. Mutualism -- Anarchism -- Between Individuals -- Between Species -- Roots in Natural Theology -- 6. Dissent from Darwin -- Is the Earth Old Enough? -- Blending Inheritance -- What Is a Species? -- Speciation and Isolation -- Is Everything Adapted? -- Holes in the Record -- Neo-Lamarckism -- Orthogenesis -- Saltationism -- PART II: THE CELL IN DEVELOPMENT AND HEREDITY -- 7. The Myth of the Cell Theory -- An Historical Paradox -- Cells from Cells -- More than Meets the Eye -- Vitalism, Materialism, and Spontaneous Generation -- 8. The Body Politic -- The Cell State -- The Dawn of Protistology -- A Cell Is Not a Cell -- What's in a Word -- Organisms within Organisms -- Weismannism -- 9. Evolving Embryology -- Technical Virtuosity -- The Organism as a Whole -- Epigenesis and Preformation -- 10. The Egg -- The Body Plan in the Egg -- Maternal Inheritance -- Cellular Differentiation -- Cytoplasmic Evolution -- PART III: GENETICS AND THE CLASSICAL SYNTHESIS -- 11. Mendel Palimpsest -- Mendel's Laws -- Neglect and Rediscovery -- Making a Discoverer.

Why Multiple Meanings? -- Geneticists versus Statisticians -- Mendel Made Darwinian -- Is the Scientific Paper Fiction? -- 12. Emerging Genetics -- The Field of Heredity -- Genotype and Phenotype -- Disciplinary Design -- Biology out of Balance -- Are Genes Real? -- 13. Darwinian Renaissance -- Merging Mendelism -- The Importance of Sex -- Population Genetics -- Random Drift and Nonadaptive Change -- The Species Problem -- Microevolution as Macroevolution -- Lessons of Synthesis -- 14. Genes, Germs, and Enzymes -- The Garrod Tale -- Physiology and Genetics -- Early Gene-Enzyme Associations -- The One-Gene: One-Enzyme Hypothesis -- Domesticating Microbes -- The Chosen Few -- The Rockefeller Foundation -- 15. Genetic Heresy and the Cold War -- Non-Darwinian Development -- Plasmon to Plasmagenes -- The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics -- University Politics -- Morgan's Smile -- PART IV: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND ORGANISMIC COMPLEXITY -- 16. Conceiving a Master Molecule -- DNA or Protein? -- Transformation and Transduction -- Chromatography -- X-Ray Crystallography -- Digital DNA -- Transcription and Translation -- Turning Genes On and Off -- Classical Doctrines of Molecular Biology -- 17. Beyond the Genome -- Complexity and the Human Genome -- A Genetic Plan? -- Confronting Old Dogmas -- Cell Architecture and Spatial Information -- Field Heredity -- Epinucleic Inheritance -- 18. Molecular Evolution and Microbial Phylogeny -- Precambrian Explosion -- Molecular Clocks -- The Origin of the Code -- A Code for Classification -- A Trilogy of Life -- Dissension and Disaffection -- Lateral Gene Transfer -- 19. Symbiomics -- Developmental Symbiosis -- Symbiosis Silhouette -- Why It Has Been Difficult to Imagine -- Toward a Unified Theory -- Symbiogenetic Renaissance -- Macroevolutionary Change -- 20. The Evolution of Relationships.

The Individual and the Group -- Kin Selection -- The Organism as a Beehive -- The Lessons of Sociobiology -- About Just-So Stories -- Symbiotic Ties -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.