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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 BatsΓÇÖ many ways Beneficial interactions Biochemical pathways Blind birds, dumb answers Blind selection Blueprints Breeding solutions Cake slices CanΓÇÖt 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 DarwinΓÇÖs challenge DarwinΓÇÖs other theory Dating fossils Defining individuals Defining species Delicate controls Disappearing into the twilight DNA & RNA DNA in action DNAΓÇÖs actions DNAΓÇÖs information system DNAΓÇÖs 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 FashionΓÇÖs whim Finding memories Fitful improvement Fossil gaps Fossil gaps explained Fossil genes Fossils Fossils and evolutionary theory Friends? Future direction Genes as each otherΓÇÖs 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 HamiltonΓÇÖs 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 LifeΓÇÖs 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 parasiteΓÇÖs 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