A fishy tale
A Lamarckian eye?
A world of new diseases
Accuracy
Acquired characteristics
Action at a distance
Adapting to climate
Alleles
Altruism
Analogies
And plasmodia
Argument from design
Armistace
Arms races
Arms races we have known
Atavisms
Back to nature
Bat clicks
Bat reality filter
Bats in the dark
Bats’ many ways
Beneficial interactions
Biochemical pathways
Blind birds, dumb answers
Blind selection
Blueprints
Breeding solutions
Cake slices
Can’t be luck
Catastrophism
Chance hardly comes into it
Chemical factories
Chirp radar
Choosing the good
Chromosomes as memory banks
Climate and on
Climate change
Cloud life
Clouds
Co-evolutionary forces
Collapsing equilibria
Combinatorial explosion
Coming together
Competitive exclusion
Complexity
Compromises
Computer monkey
contents
Continuous connection
Continuous variables
Continuum of theories
Convergence
Copying errors
Creating differences
Creationists and the problem of fossils
Creative evolution
Crude improvements
Cumulative selection
Darwin and the age of the earth
Darwin sets out
Darwin’s challenge
Darwin’s other theory
Dating fossils
Defining individuals
Defining species
Delicate controls
Disappearing into the twilight
DNA & RNA
DNA in action
DNA’s actions
DNA’s information system
DNA’s power
Doomed rivals
Doppler bats
Drifting back
Early evolutionist
Eating grass
Eating meat
Electric fish
Electric searches and shocks
Embryology
Ending an arms race
Enemies
Equilibrium
Eternal DNA
Evolution of the eye
Evolutionarily stable strategies
Explaining life
Fashion’s whim
Finding memories
Fitful improvement
Fossil gaps
Fossil gaps explained
Fossil genes
Fossils
Fossils and evolutionary theory
Friends?
Future direction
Genes as each other’s environments
Genes as teams
Genes at a distance ­ host manipulation
Genes for taste
Genetic operating system
Geographical separation
Getting better
Getting better?
Getting nowhere
Good design
Gradual Darwin
Green-beard effect
Haemoglobin
Half a wing
Hamilton’s rule
Hills in gene space
Home truths
Homeobox genes
Homologies
Hooting and whistling bats
Impact of the environment
Individuals as the unit of selection
Information technology
Inter-specific competition
Intermediate eyes
Intra-specific competition
Jumping genes
Kin selection
Kinship
Lamarck
Lamarckianism
Life as information
Life’s basics
Linkage disequilibrium
Locked in escalation
Lyell and the Principles of Geology
Macromutations
Mating systems
Megamutations
Mimicry
Molecular clock
Monkies on typewriters
Moving continents
Mr Five Per-cent
Mystery of the first mimics
Natural design
Natural selection
Natural selection in a test-tube
No contest
No return
Old genetic texts
Operating systems
Origin of cells
Other concerns
Other embryologies?
Our imperfect eye
Panic
Parasites and beauty
Partial answers on a beach
Periodic cicadas
Polygenes
Polymers
Possible eyes
Power of the majority
Progress through futility
Push and pull
Queen of the Jungle
Reaching out
Reading DNA
Ready answers
Recipes
Recipes for life
ROM
Runaway evolution
Saltations and Darwin
Seeing in the dark
Self-copying
Send/recieve technology
Similar solutions
Sliding scale of eyes
Sonar
Sound attenuation
Speciation
Species as gene pools
Spitting venom
Storage capacity of DNA
Success rides out
Suntans
Switching bats
Symmetry, or the lack of it
Tails in waiting
Tales of imperfection
Tall trees
Taste and style
Terror of the jungle?
Test-tube evolution
The competitive exclusion principle
The costs of clicking
The Doppler shift
The evolution of virulence
The first sound
The flower and the hummingbird
The gene pool
The language of life
The Loch Ness monster
The long tail of the weaver bird
The mystery of apparent design
The non-living environment
The Origin of Species
The parasite’s eye-view
The Red Queen
The spark of life
Thermostats and feedback
To be, or not to be, an ant
Togetherness
Track, and be tracked
Tracking enemies across evolutionary time
Translation
Transmission of DNA information
Types of existence
Types of memory
Tyranny of fashion
Unavoidable disappointment
Uniformitarianism
Use and disuse
Vageries of vision
Variation arises
Viruses
Ways to eat ants
Whim or guile?
Who chooses?
Why wait?
Widowbird experiment
William Paley
Winners and losers
Working together