Introduction : On rebels, icons, and the value of dissent / Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich
Alfred Russel Wallace, the discovery of natural selection, and the origins of humankind / Michael Ruse
Rebel with two causes : Hans Driesch / Garland E. Allen
Wilhelm Johannsen : a rebel or a diehard? / Raphael Falk
Raymond Arthur Dart : the man who unwillingly ushered in a revolution in the evolution of humankind / Phillip V. Tobias
In Weismann's footsteps : the cyto-rebellion of C.D. Darlington / Oren Harman
Striking the hornet's nest : Richard Goldschmidt's rejection of the particulate gene / Michael R. Dietrich
Rebellion and iconoclasm in the life and science of Barbara McClintock / Nathaniel Comfort
Challenging the protein dogma of the gene : Oswald T. Avery, a revolutionary conservative / Ute Deichmann
Roger Sperry and integrative action in the nervous system / Tim Horder
Leon Croizat : a radical biogeographer / David L. Hull
Dogma, heresy, and conversion : Vera Copner Wynne-Edwards's crusade and the levels-of-selection debate / Mark Borrello
Peter Mitchell : changing the face of bioenergetics / John Prebble and Bruce Weber
Howard Temin : rebel of evidence and reason / Daniel J. Kevles
Motoo Kimura and the rise of neutralism / James F. Crow
Against the grain : the science and life of William D. Hamilton / Ullica Segerstrale
The iconoclastic research program of Carl Woese / Jan Sapp
Stephen Jay Gould, Darwinian iconoclast? / David Sepkoski
Culture and gender do not dissolve into how scientists "read" nature : Thelma Rowell's heterodoxy / Vinciane Despret
Bringing statistical methods to community and evolutionary ecology : Daniel S. Simberloff / William Dritschilo
Epilogue : Legitimation is the name of the game / R.C. Lewontin.