26. A Humongous Fungus Among Us

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Come Seven ix
4. PART ONE. HEAVEN AND EARTH
5. 1. Happy Thoughts on a Sunny Day in New York City 3
6. 2. Dousing Diminutive Dennis's Debate (or DODD= 2000) 11
7. 3. The Celestial Mechanic and the Earthly Naturalist 24
8. 4. The Late Birth of a Flat Earth 38
9. PART TWO. LITERATURE AND SCIENCE
10. 5· The Monster's Human Nature 53
11. 6. The Tooth and Claw Centennial 63
12. 7. Sweetness and Light 76
13. PART THREE. ORIGIN, STABILITY, AND EXTINCTION
14. ORIGIN
15. 8. In the Mind of the Beholder 93
16. 9. Of Tongue Worms, Velvet Worms, and Water Bears 108
17. STABILITY
18. 10. Cordelia's Dilemma 123
19. 11. Lucy on the Earth in Stasis 133
20. EXTINCTION
21. 12. Dinosaur in a Haystack 147
22. 13. Jove's Thunderbolts 159
23. PART FOUR. WRITING ABOUT SNAILS
24. 14. Poe's Greatest Hit 173
25. 15. The Invisible Woman 187
26. 16. Left Snails and Right Minds 202
27. PART FIVE: THE GLORY OF MUSEUMS
28. 17. Dinomania 221
29. 18. Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O! 238
30. 19. Evolution by Walking 248
31. 20. The Razumovsky Duet 260
32. 21. Four Antelopes of the Apocalypse 272
33. PART SIX. DISPARATE FACES OF EUGENICS
34. 22. Does the Stoneless Plum Instruct the Thinking Reed? 285
35. 23. The Smoking Gun of Eugenics 296
36. 24. The Most Unkindest Cut of All 309
37. PART SEVEN. EVOLUTIONARY THEORY, EVOLUTIONARY STORIES
38. THEORY
39. 25. Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution? 325
40. 26. A Humongous Fungus Among Us 335
41. 27. Speaking of Snails and Scales 344
42. STORIES
43. 28. Hooking Leviathan by Its Past 359
44. 29. A Special Fondness for Beetles 377
45. 30. If Kings Can Be Hermits, Then We Are All Monkeys' Uncles 388
46. 31. Magnolias from Moscow 401
47. PART EIGHT. LINNAEUS AND DARWIN'S GRANDFATHER
48. 32. The First Unmasking of Nature 415
49. 33. Ordering Nature by Budding and Full-Breasted Sexuality 427
50. 34. Four Metaphors in Three Generations 442
51. Bibliography 459
52. Index 469