Prologue; Contents; 1. Basic Forms of Life: The Simplicity that Isn't Simple; 2. Machinery for Evolution: Enter Love and Enter Death; 3. The Animal's First Need: Protein and Original Sin; 4. Parenthood: With Love and without; 5. The Need for Continuity: More Lives than One; 6. The Barbarian Mammal: Homeric Heroes; 7. The Meaning of Awareness: The You and the Me; 8. Undeveloped Potentialities: The Civilized Animal; 9. Reverence for Life: The Vandal and the Sportsman; 10. Devolution: A Dangerous Experiment; 11. How Right Was Darwin? New Answers to Old Questions; Epilogue
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Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1956