Origin story: the trials of Charles Darwin

Preface

Author's note

Introduction: A temple of science

Part I: Down. The letter

First

Survival of the fittest

Part II: The book. The devil's chaplain

Best seller

Part III: Friends and foes. Darwin's bulldog

The dinosaur

Soapy Sam

A mysterious malady

Part IV: Oxford. The association

Pax interruptus

Mawnkey! Mawnkey!

The rebuttals

The dogs bark but the caravan moves on

Epilogue: After myth.