What would Darwin write today?
Symptoms of real-time evolution. Is autism a harbinger of our changing brains? ; The DarWa theory revisited ... and a glimpse at a new theory ; Twenty generations to domesticate humans ; Violence and the lack thereof ; Allergies : another harbinger of our evolving bodies? ; Our unnatural "all-natural" world ; Fat humans, fat animals : another symptom? ; Brave new sex
How does evolution really work now? The nature versus nurture wars ; Missing heredity, mysterious toxins ; Transgenerational inheritance : aka, "voodoo biology" ; WWIV : nuking our microbes ; The "yucky" stuff inside you ; Autism revisited : three potential drivers ; Viruses : the roadrunners of evolution ; A perfectly modern pregnancy ; Bringing it all together : DESTINY is propelling evolution
A world of nonrandom mutation. Playing with the building blocks of life ; Humans hijacking viruses ; Editing life on a grand scale ; Unnatural acts, designer babies, and sex 2.0 ; Boyden brains
Evolving ourselves ... Better living through chemistry? ; Forever young, beautiful, and fearless? ; Unnatural attraction ; Sports quandaries and beyond ; Designer organs and cloned humans ; Evolving brains revisited ; The robot-computer-human interface ; Perhaps an ethical question or two? ; Technically life, technically death ; Trust whom?
The future of life. I don't remember you ... de-extinction ; Humanity's really short story ; Evolving hominins ; Synthetic life ; Humans and hubris : does nature win in the end? ; Leaving Earth?
Epilogue. New evolutionary trees
true or false : did he get it right?
