Illustrations
The Louise Smith Bross Lectures by John Bross
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Facing up to Ourselves
PART I HUMORS, TEMPERAMENTS, SIGNS
1 Fixing the Signs
2 Feelings and Faces
PART 2 SOULS AND MACHINES
3 From Meaning to Mechanism
4 Fable and Fact: La Fontaine and Buffon
PART 3 GOING APE
5 Beastly Boys and Admirable Animals
6 Our Animal Cousins
7 Art and Atavism
A Literary-Cinematic Postscript
A Personal Footnote
Notes
Further Reading
Index