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| Preface | |
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| Starting in the Middle | |
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| Tell Me Why | |
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| Is Nothing Sacred? | |
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| What, Where, When, Why -- and How? | |
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| Locke's "Proof" of the Primacy of Mind | |
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| Hume's Close Encounter | |
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| An Idea Is Born | |
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| What Is So Special About Species? | |
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| Natural Selection -- an Awful Stretcher | |
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| Did Darwin Explain the Origin of Species? | |
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| Natural Selection as an Algorithmic Process | |
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| Processes as Algorithms | |
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| Universal Acid | |
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| Early Reactions | |
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| Darwin's Assault on the Cosmic Pyramid | |
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| The Principle of the Accumulation of Design | |
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| The Tools for R and D: Skyhooks or Cranes? | |
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| Who's Afraid of Reductionism? | |
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| The Tree of Life | |
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| How Should We Visualize the Tree of Life? | |
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| Color-coding a Species on the Tree | |
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| Retrospective Coronations: Mitochondrial Eve and Invisible Beginnings | |
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| Patterns, Oversimplification, and Explanation | |
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| The Possible and the Actual | |
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| Grades of Possibility? | |
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| The Library of Mendel | |
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| The Complex Relation Between Genome and Organism | |
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| Possibility Naturalized | |
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| Threads of Actuality in Design Space | |
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| Drifting and Lifting Through Design Space | |
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| Forced Moves in the Game of Design | |
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| The Unity of Design Space | |
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| Darwinian Thinking in Biology | |
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| Priming Darwin' s Pump | |
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| Back Beyond Darwin's Frontier | |
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| Molecular Evolution | |
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| The Laws of the Game of Life | |
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| Eternal Recurrence -- Life Without Foundations? | |
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| Biology Is Engineering | |
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| The Sciences of the Artificial | |
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| Darwin Is Dead -- Long Live Darwin! | |
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| Function and Specification | |
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| Original Sin and the Birth of Meaning | |
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| The Computer That Learned to Play Checkers | |
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| Artifact Hermeneutics, or Reverse Engineering | |
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| Stuart Kauffman as Meta-Engineer | |
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| Searching for Quality | |
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| The Power of Adaptationist Thinking | |
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| The Leibnizian Paradigm | |
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| Playing with Constraints | |
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| Bully for Brontosaurus | |
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| The Boy Who Cried Wolf? | |
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| The Spandrel's Thumb | |
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| Punctuated Equilibrium: A Hopeful Monster | |
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| Tinker to Evers to Chance: The Burgess Shale Double-Play Mystery | |
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| Controversies Contained | |
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| A Clutch of Harmless Heresies | |
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| Three Losers: Teilhard, Lamarck, and Directed Mutation | |
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| Cui Bono? | |
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| Mind, Meaning, Mathematics, and Morality | |
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| The Cranes of Culture | |
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| The Monkey's Uncle Meets the Meme | |
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| Invasion of the Body-Snatchers | |
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| Could There Be a Science of Memetics? | |
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| The Philosophical Importance of Memes | |
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| Losing Out Minds to Darwin | |
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| The Role of Language in Intelligence | |
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| Chomsky Contra Darwin: Four Episodes | |
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| Nice Tries | |
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| The Evolution of Meanings | |
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| The Quest for Real Meaning | |
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| Two Black Boxes | |
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| Blocking the Exits | |
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| Safe Passage to the Future | |
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| The Emperor's New Mind, and Other Fables | |
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| The Sword in the Stone | |
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| The Library of Toshiba | |
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| The Phantom Quantum-Gravity Computer: Lessons from Lapland | |
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| On the Origin of Morality | |
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| E Pluribus Unum? | |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche's Just So Stories | |
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| Some Varieties of Greedy Ethical Reductionism | |
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| Sociobiology: Good and Bad, Good and Evil | |
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| Redesigning Morality | |
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| Can Ethics Be Naturalized? | |
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| Judging the Competition | |
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| The Moral First Aid Manual | |
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| The Future of an Idea | |
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| In Praise of Biodiversity | |
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| Universal Acid: Handle with Care | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |