pt. 1. Art and science --
ch. 1. Upwardly mobile fossils of Leonardo's living earth --
ch. 2. Great Western and the fighting Temeraire --
ch. 3. Seeing eye to eye, through a glass clearly --
pt. 2. Biographies in evolution --
ch. 4. Clam stripped bare by her naturalists, even --
ch. 5. Darwin's American soulmate: a bird's-eye view --
ch. 6. Seahorse for all races --
ch. 7. Mr. Sophia's pony --
pt. 3. Human prehistory --
ch. 8. Up against a wall --
ch. 9. Lesson from the old masters --
ch. 10. Our unusual unity --
pt. 11. History and toleration --
ch. 11. Cerion for Christopher --
ch. 12. Dodo in the caucus race --
ch. 13. Diet of Worms and defenestration of Prague --
pt. 5. Evolutionary facts and theories --
ch. 14. Non-overlapping magisteria --
ch. 15. Boyle's Law and Darwin's details --
ch. 17. Brotherhood by inversion (or, as the worm turns) --
pt. 6. Different perceptions of common truths --
ch. 18. War of the worldviews --
ch. 19. Triumph of the root-heads --
ch. 20. Can we truly know sloth and rapacity --
ch. 21. Reversing established orders.