My Books about Teaching Science Do Elephants Have Knees?and other Stories about Darwinian Origins Whimsical stories for children abound in imagery that may introduce serious Darwinian thinking, the science that answers questions of origins. Incipient notions of natural selection lurk in the lives of Rudyard Kipling's Elephant Child, Leo Lionni's Minnow, and Bill Peet's Chester the Pig. Paying close attention…