Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. 1. Repaying Darwin’s Debt to Agriculture 1
5. 2. What Do We Need from Agriculture? 9
6. 3. Evolution 101 28
7. 4. Darwinian Agriculture’s Three Core Principles 43
8. 5. What Won’t Work 54
9. 6. Selfish Genes, Sophisticated Plants, and Haphazard Ecosystems 76
10. 7. What Won’t Work 95
11. 8. What Has Worked 120
12. 9. What Could Work Better 145
13. 10. Stop Evolution Now! 164
14. 11. Learning from Plants, Ants, and Ecosystems 177
15. 12. Diversity, Bet-hedging, and Selection among Ideas 190
16. Acknowledgments 217
17. Glossary 219
18. References 227
19. Index 249