Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Belaboring Scopes
1. Lighting the Darwin Fuse
2. The Lamb-Dragon and the Devil's Poison
3. Blood Relationship, Bolshevism, and Whoopie Parties
4. The Wolf Pack and the Upas Tree
5. Beast Ancestry, Dangerous Triplets, and Damnable Heresies
6. Flood, Fruit, and Satan
7. Trees, Knees, and Nurseries
8. The Nightcrawler, the Wedge, and the Bloodiest Religion
Epilogue: The Baby Christian and the Dark Place
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index