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Part 1 PERFECTION AND IMPERFECTION - A TRILOGY ON A PANDA'S THUMB: The Panda's Thumb; Senseless Signs of History; Double Trouble. Part 2 DARWINIANA: Natural Selection and the Human Brain - Darwin vs Wallace; Darwin's Middle Road; Death before Birth, or a Mite's Nunc Dimittis; Shades of Lamarck; Caring Groups and Selfish Genes. Part 3 HUMAN EVOLUTION: A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse; Piltdown Revisited; Our Greatest Evolutionary Step; In the Midst of Life. Part 4 SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF HUMAN DIFFERENCES: Wide Hats and Narrow Minds; Women's Brains; Dr Down's Syndrome; Flaws in a Victorian Veil. Part 5 THE PACE OF CHANGE: The Episodic Nature of Evolutionary Change; Return of the Hopeful Monster; The Great Scablands Debate; A Quahog Is a Quahog. Part 6 EARLY LIFE: An Early Start; Crazy Old Randolph Kirkpatrick; Bathybius and Eozoon; Might We Fit Inside a Sponge's Cell? Part 7 THEY WERE DESPISED AND REJECTED: Were Dinosaurs Dumb; The Telltale Wishbone; Nature's Odd Couples; Sticking up for Marsupials. Part 8 SIZE AND TIME: Our Allotted Lifetimes; Natural Attraction: Bacteria, the Birds and the Bees; Time's Vastness.