The Ant and the Peacock  12372

• Foreword   John Maynard Smith
• Preface

Part 1: Darwinism, Its Rivals and Its Renegades[rtoc]

1. Walking archives
2. A world without Darwin: 1859
   • Rivals and follies: 1859 and beyond
   • Goodbye to all that
3. Darwinism old and new
   • Anticipations of things past
   • Organism to gene
   • Structures to strategists
   • Complexities and diversities
4. Demarcations of design
   • The scrapheap of chance
   • ‘Strange deviations tied together’
   • Artefacts of our minds[/rtoc]

Part 2: The Peacock[rtoc]

5. The sting in the peacock’s tail
   • Flying in the face of natural selection
   • The career of a controversy
6. Nothing but natural selection?
   • ‘The advocate of pure Darwinism’
   • Coloration for protection
   • Coloration for recognition
   • Explaining away display
   • Coloration without selection
   • Males for Darwin, females for Wallace?
   • Wallace’s legacy: A century of natural selection
7. Can females shape males?
   • Only humans can choose
   • Not choosing, just looking
   • ‘The instability of a vicious feminine caprice’
   • The trouble with taste
8. Do sensible females prefer sexy males?
   • Good taste or good sense?
   • Darwin’s solution: Beauty for beauty’s sake
   • Wallace’s solution: Not just a pretty tail
   • Is ‘good sense’ sensible?
   • Fisher’s solution: Good taste makes good sense
9. ‘Until careful experiments are made …’
10. Ghosts of Darwinism surpassed
    • The changing face of sexual seletion
    • A happy ending to the peacock’s tale[/rtoc]

Part 3: The Ant[rtoc]

11. Altruism now
    • The problem with altruism
    • The problem solved
    • ‘Altruism’ reanalysed
12. Altruism then
    • Nature most cruel
    • Altruism unseen
    • Altruism levelled down
13. The social insects: Kind kin
14. Make dove, not war: Conventional forces
15. Human altruism: A natural kind?
    • Darwin: morality as natural history
    • Wallace: Wise before the event
    • Huxley: Morality at enmity with nature
    • Spencer: Darwinian bodies, Lamarckian minds
    • Rhetorical skirmishes
16. Breeding between the lines
    • The origin of species
    • Speciating for the greater good
    • Selection’s great divide: Mating or weaning?
    • The problem for Darwin and Wallace
    • Darwin against creation: Incidental, not endowed
    • Darwin against natural selection: Incidental, not selected
    • Darwin’s adaptive interlude
    • Wallace: The power of natural selection
    • Origins elusive[/rtoc]

• Epilogue
• Notes on the letters of Darwin and Wallace

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