Darwinian Fairytales : Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution

Introduction vii Preface xiv Essay 1: Darwinism's Dilemma 3(18) Essay 2: Where Darwin First Went Wrong About Man 21(26) Essay 3: "But What About War, Pestilence, and All That?" 47(11) Essay 4: Population, Privilege, and Malthus' Retreat 58(19) Essay 5: A Horse in the Bathroom, or The Struggle for Life 77(38) Essay 6: Tax and the Selfish Girl, or Does "Altruism" Need Inverted Commas? 115(57) Essay 7: Genetic Calvinism, or Demons and Dawkins 172(26) Essay 8: "He Ain't Heavy, He's my Brother," or Altruism and Shared Genes 198(50) Essay 9: A New Religion 248(10) Essay 10: Paley's Revenge, or Purpose Regained 258(49) Essay 11: Errors of Heredity, or the Irrelevance of Darwinism to Human Life 307(20) Acknowledgments 327(2) Notes 329(12) Index 341