Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the American Edition 1 (4)
1 Science and Sensibility 5 (56)
1.1 A Devil's Chaplain
8 (6)
1.2 What is True?
14 (6)
1.3 Gaps in the Mind
20 (7)
1.4 Science, Genetics and Ethics: Memo for Tony Blair
27 (11)
1.5 Trial By Jury
38 (4)
1.6 Crystalline Truth and Crystal Balls
42 (5)
1.7 Postmodernism Disrobed
47 (7)
1.8 The Joy of Living Dangerously: Sanderson of Oundle
54 (7)
2 Light Will Be Thrown 61 (56)
2.1 Light Will Be Thrown
63 (15)
2.2 Darwin Triumphant
78 (13)
2.3 The 'Information Challenge'
91 (13)
2.4 Genes Aren't Us
104 (3)
2.5 Son of Moore's Law
107 (10)
3 The Infected Mind 117 (46)
3.1 Chinese Junk and Chinese Whispers
119 (9)
3.2 Viruses of the Mind
128 (18)
3.3 The Great Convergence
146 (6)
3.4 Dolly and the Cloth Heads
152 (4)
3.5 Time to Stand Up
156 (7)
4 They Told Me, Heraclitus 163 (24)
4.1 Lament for Douglas
165 (3)
4.2 Eulogy for Douglas Adams
168 (3)
4.3 Eulogy for W. D. Hamilton
171 (8)
4.4 Snake Oil
179 (8)
5 Even the Ranks of Tuscany 187 (36)
5.1 Rejoicing in Multifarious Nature
190 (4)
5.2 The Art of the Developable
194 (9)
5.3 Hallucigenia, Wiwaxia and Friends
203 (3)
5.4 Human Chauvinism and Evolutionary Progress
206 (12)
5.5 Unfinished Correspondence with a Darwinian Heavyweight
218 (5)
6 There is All Africa and her Prodigies in Us 223 (18)
6.1 Ecology of Genes
225 (3)
6.2 Out of the Soul of Africa
228 (3)
6.3 I Speak of Africa and Golden Joys
231 (3)
6.4 Heroes and Ancestors
234 (7)
7 A Prayer for My Daughter 241 (8)
7.1 Good and Bad Reasons for Believing
242 (7)
Endnotes 249 (7)
Index 256

Presents a collection of essays that explore such topics as religion, mysticism, modern educational methods, pseudoscience, Africa, and late colleagues Douglas Adams and Stephen Jay Gould