2 · The Seven Ages
Players on the Stage · Parents, Offspring, and Conflict · Life in the Womb · A Brave New World · The Beginning of the End · They Tuck You Up · And Then the Lover · And Then the Justice · Last Scene of All

3 · The Sparks of Nature
The Family Face · Spirally Bound · Twins · What About the Environment? · Early Handling · Dear Octopus · Myopia and Music · How Much Nature, How Much Nurture?

4 · Cooking Behavior
The Great Blueprint Fallacy · Genes Make Proteins, Not Behavior · Niche-picking · A Picture of Differences · Little Emperors? · Rules for Changing the Rules · System and Synthesis

5 · Protean Instincts
Original Matter · The Universal Smile · The Stink of Instinct · A Little Dose of Judgment · Managing the Machine · A Well-designed Life · Flexible Structure

6 · Alternative Lives
The Developmental Jukebox · Forecasting the Weather · Growing People · Pubertal Precocity · Street Children · Different Tunes

7 · Chance and Choice
Darwin's Nose · Storm and Stress · What's in a Name? · Choice · How Much Free Will? · Tangled Threads

8 · Sensitive Periods
Vulnerable Times · Something Nasty in the Woodshed · Learning to Speak · Learning to Sing · Closing Options · Stamping In · Competitive Exclusion · Learning the Lessons

9 · Morning Shows theDay
Life Sentence · Wiping the Tapes? · More Than a Seed · Staying on Track · Different Routes to the Same Place · The Strands of Continuity

10 · Room 101
Metamorphosis · From Elastic to Plastic · Breaking the Mold · Stress, Love, and Hormones · Long Live Change

11 · Everything to Play For
Pointless Fun · Tom Sawyer's Fence · From Eton to Waterloo · Connecting the Unconnected · Roaming Freely

12 · Sex, Beauty, and Incest
It's Just It · Extravagant Ornaments · Some Strangeness in the Proportion · Striking the Balance · Cooking the Preferences · The Developmental Origins of Homosexuality · Serious Commitment · From Inbreeding Avoidance to Incest Taboos

13 · This Strange Eventful History
The One True Cause · The Evolution of Development · Who Chooses, Who Designs? · Building Clever Machines · A Process Too Complicated to Explain?

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Further Reading
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