Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Preface: A Malacologist’s Apology
Introduction: The Fingerprints of History
1 A Message from our Ancestors
2 The Rules of the Game
3 Herodotus Revised
4 Change or Decay
5 Caliban’s Revenge
6 Behind the Screen
7 The Battle of the Sexes
8 Clocks, Fossils and Apes
9 Time and Chance
10 The Economics of Eden
11 The Kingdoms of Cain
12 Darwin’s Strategist
13 The Deadly Fevers
14 Cousins under the Skin
15 Evolution Applied
16 The Modern Prometheus
17 The Evolution of Utopia
Appendix: A Bibliographic Sketch
Index
Adout the Author
Praise
Copyright
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