Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : wonderful relationships : Darwinian stories of origins -- "Curtiosity's" child : Bobby Darwin's impertinent early years -- Darwin and the pampas pirates : adventure in search of treasure -- Fossils, fools, & faults : rounding South America -- Irritating worms : the elderly Darwin fascinated by the intelligence of worms -- A lungfish walked into the zoo : on the origin of limbs from lobe-fins -- Out on a limb : sketching at the zoo to compare limb anatomy -- Nosey elephants : a tale of trunks and tusks -- The bearduck of baleen : on the origin of new traits from existing ones -- The saga of Mooshmael : the logic of evolutionary relationships -- The higgledy-piggledy whale : calling a whale a whale on purpose -- Archaic chickengators : amniotic archosaur ancestors of dinosaurs and birds -- Coral pigs and tidepool sheep : novel selections of behavior and anatomy -- Epilogue : femurs and footprints : on the trail of megabeasts.

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