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NON-FICTION
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Chris Lynch
Science and the Sea of Faith - Russell Blackford
Contributors
FICTION
Finches - A.M. Muffaz
A Fistful of Tassels - Z.S. Adani
Vaster than Empires - Brendan Carson
Mercy - Gerald Costlow
The Proust Effect - Marlissa Campbell
The Uncertain Hour - Anil Menon
An Ordinary Boy - Jen White
Detritus of a Second-hand Mind - Douglas A. Van Belle
Hopeful Monsters: A Darwinian Fairytale - Anne Lyle
On the Entropy of Species - Ben Francisco
The Pigs Are Not Alone - Christopher K. Miller
Nullipara - Gitte Christensen
The Sound of Sharp Voices - Catherine J. Gardner
Confessions of a Voluntary Egg Carrier - Carlos Hernandez
The Frog Pool - Jetse de Vries
Pets - James S. Dorr
The Feathered Serpent - Chris Lynch
Darwin’s Daughter - Christopher Green
Orgueil - Michael C. Lea
A Bear Trains a Man - Kelly Jameson
Map of the Provinces - Jefferson Navicky
Boy of Bone - K.R. Sands
Creationism - Brian Stableford
Four Corners - Patricia Russo
POETRY
The Origin of Haiku by Means of Natural Selection, or
The Preservation of Favoured Renga in the Struggle
for Meaning - Sean Williams
Introduction (haiku)
Chapter 1: Variation Under Domestication (renga)
Chapter 2: Variation Under Nature (renku)
Chapter 3: Struggle for Existence (haibun)
Chapter 4: Natural Selection (haiga)
Chapter 5: Laws of Variation (for Shiki)
Chapter 6: Difficulties on Theory (senryu)
Chapter 7: Instinct (for Yasuda)
Chapter 8: Hybridism (for Henderson)
Chapter 9: On the Imperfection of the Geological Record
(for Virgilio)
Chapter 10: On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings
(for Spiess)
Chapter 11: Geographical Distribution (monoku)
Chapter 12: Geographical Distribution, continued (haiqua)
Chapter 13: Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings (cirku)
Chapter 14: Recapitulation and Conclusion (haiku)
The Selective Pressure of Children - Julie Bloss Kelsey
Swim to Saunter - Jeff Schiff
How Do You Do, Tuatara? - Zenobia Frost 96
Insectile - Holly Day 125
Expressions of the Emotions - Magdalena Ball
Rapunzel and the Double Helix Anne Bryan
Pakicetus - Phil Boiarski
For Darwin’s Birthday - Anne Bryan
Where the People Are More Evolved - Bronwyn Mehan
Points North - Susan Beem
Creatures of Lava Tubes - Jim Pascual Agustin
Evolution of the Encantadas - Elizabeth Schultz
Rock Pool, Undertow Bay - Michelle Leber
Ancient Catch - Bruce Boston
The Green Need - Emily Ballou
ARTWORK
Muscinae - Ernst Haeckel
Basimycetes - Ernst Haeckel
Orchidae - Ernst Haeckel
Lacertilia - Ernst Haeckel
Cystoidea - Ernst Haeckel
Portrait of a Bat - Chris Rodenhurst
Portrait of an Ape - Chris Rodenhurst
Lichenes - Ernst Haeckel
Tree diagram - Cat Sparks
Trochilidae - Ernst Haeckel
Spirobranchia - Ernst Haeckel
Gorgonocephalidae (detail from Ophiodea) - Ernst Haeckel
Batrachia - Ernst Haeckel
Tineida - Ernst Haeckel
Collected Specimens - Steven Rhodes
Nepenthaceae - Ernst Haeckel
Tetracoralla - Ernst Haeckel
Ostraciontes - Ernst Haeckel
Prosobranchia - Ernst Haeckel
Discomedusae - Ernst Haeckel
Portrait of a Deer - Chris Rodenhurst
The Tree Roots - Teresa Young
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