Table of Contents
List of Figures vi
List of Tables viii
Introduction 1
Part I Black Darwin
Chapter 1 The Unexpected Path 13
Chapter 2 In Your Next Life, You Should Be a Parasite 39
Chapter 3 Men Plan and God Laughs: Why Dynamical Complexity Is at the Heart of Some of Our Most "Stormy" Problems 60
Chapter 4 What Brings You Here Takes You Away 81
Chapter 5 Black Darwin 102
Chapter 6 My Great Predecessors: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants 113
Part II Why Evolution Matters
Chapter 7 America's Biggest Lie: Race and Intelligence 133
Chapter 8 A Book That Should Be Read by Everyone 150
Chapter 9 Relax: Evolution Is a Fact, but It Doesn't Tell Us Anything About the Existence of God 173
Chapter 10 Evolution, Sex, and Gender 189
Chapter 11 Homage to Santa Rosalia, or All Hail the Pandemic! 220
Chapter 12 America's Biggest Lie: Slight Return 244
Chapter 13 Evolution in Silico 274
Chapter 14 The Evolutionary Science of Social Justice 294
Conclusion: A Voice in the Wilderness 320
Notes 331
Index 363