Foreword by Daniel C. Dennett xi
Prologue: From the Beginning Was the Word xxi
1 Barren Virgins 1
2 Social Genes 17
3 The "Gene" Meme 53
4 Differences That Make a Difference 73
5 Limber Robots and Lumbering Genes 101
6 Intrapersonal Conflict 125
7 Scratching Your Own Back 143
8 Reflexions on Self 165
9 How Come? What For? Why? 183
10 Sameness and Difference 203
11 Fighting the Good Cause 233
Interlude 271
12 Making Sense 281
X Vive la differance 317
13 On the Origin of Meaning 321
14 On the Past and Future of Freedom 347
15 Darwinian Hermeneutics 359
Cadenza 379
Appendix (a Vestigial Organ): Words about Words 381
Acknowledgments 393
References 395
Sources 435
Index 437
