Edmund Russell is Professor of History at Boston University, where he focuses his research on environmental history, the history of technology, US history, and biology. He is the author of Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth (Cambridge, 2011) and co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in Environment and History series.

1. Introduction; 2. Patrician coevolution (1200-1831); 3. Human evolution in a transitional era (1776-1831); 4. Greyhound evolution and coevolution in a transitional era (1776-1831); 5. Modernizing human evolution (1831-1900); 6. Modern coevolution for coursing (1831-1900); 7. Modern coevolution for shows (1860-1900); 8. Epilogue.

Edmund Russell examines interactions between greyhounds and their owners in England from 1200 to 1900 to prove that history is an evolutionary process.