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Prologue: The Ironies of Misplaced Assumptions; The Way of Science; 1 Monsters and Marvels; 2 The Messy Story Behind the Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology; 3 Ahead of the Curve; 4 Marxism and Cell Biology; 5 The Dogma of the Scientific Method; Darwin, Evolution & Society; 6 Was Darwin a Social Darwinist?; 7 Social Un-Darwinism; 8 A More Fitting Analogy; 9 The Domesticated Gene; Making Mistakes; 10 A Comedy of Scientific Errors; 11 Nobel Ideals and Noble Errors; 12 Celebrating Darwin’s Errors; What Counts as Science; 13 Science Beyond Scientists; 14 Skepticism and the Architecture of Trust; 15 Science Con-Artists; Naturalizing Cultural Values; 16 Male, Female, and/or -?; 17 Monsters and the Tyranny of Normality; 18 To Be Human; 19 Genes R Us; 20 The Peppered Moths, A Study in Black and White; Myth-conceptions; 21 Alexander Fleming’s Eureka Moment; 22 Round vs. Wrinkled: Gregor Mendel as Icon; 23 William Harvey and Capillaries; 24 The Tragic Hero of Childbed Fever; Values & Biology Education; 25 Respect for Life; 26 Hands-Off Dissection?; 27 Organisms, Modified, Genetically; 28 Close to Nature; Epilogue: Challenging Our Sacred Bovines; Afterword for Educators; Notes; References; Acknowledgments; Image Credits; Index

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