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defined
early skepticism toward
embryonic development as mirror of
fossil record and,
see
fossil record
gaps and flaws in
genetic drift in
gradualism in
of humans, see human evolution
in laboratory
of languages
micro- and macro-
natural selection and, see natural selection
nonselective mechanisms of
opposition to
predictions made by
rates of
retrodictions and
sex and,
see
sexual selection
six tenets of
species as unit of
species origins in,
see
speciation
summarized
teaching of
as theory vs. fact
transitional forms in, see transitional forms
vestigial traits and, see vestigial traits
evolutionary psychology
extinction
eyes and vision
evolution of
vestigial
 
fairy wrens
Fallopian tubes
feathers
Feynman, Richard
finches
fire, control of
fish
blind
embryonic development and
flatfish
on islands
lobe-finned
recurrent laryngeal nerve and
sexual dimorphism in
speciation in
in timeline of life’s history
zebrafish
Fisher.
flight
flightless birds
flounders
foods, rich
fossil record
biogeography and
bird evolution in
common ancestors in
complex adaptations and
creationism and
dating of rocks in
dinosaurs in
evidence for evolution in
formation of fossils in
human evolution in
incompleteness of
molecular clock and
mutationism and
and ordering of rock layers
and rates of evolution
Tiktaalik roseae
in
timeline of life’s history in
transitional forms in ; see
also
transitional forms
trees in
whales in
frogs
fruit bats
fruit flies
(Drosophila)
 
Galapagos Islands
creationism on
gene-culture coevolution
gene pools
genes
alleles of
atavisms and
common ancestry and
dead (pseudogenes)
environmental factors and
human behavior and
humanness and
interbreeding and
lactose tolerance and
in natural selection; see
also
natural selection
races and
random sampling of
“selfish”
speciation and
see
also
DNA
genetic drift
genetic mutations
egg-laying and
in
GLO
gene
in human evolution
instant speciation via
in platypuses
randomness of
sense of smell and
speciation and
species barriers and
vestigial traits and
geographic speciation
geography of life, see biogeography
Gilbert, William S.
Gingerich, Philip
giraffes
Gish, Duane
glaciers
gliders
gliding
Globorotalia conoidea
GLO gene
Glossopteris
Godless: The Church of Liberalism
(Coulter)
Goldschmidt, Richard
Gondwana
goose bumps
gorillas
Gould, Stephen Jay
gradualism
Grant, Peter
Grant, Rosemary
grasping reflex
gravity, theory of
Gray, Asa
Gray, Tom
Great Britain
groundsels
guinea pigs
Guinness Book of World Records
guppies
 
Haeckel, Ernst
Haikouella lanceolata
Haldane, J.B.S.
Hall, Barry
Halliday, Tim
Hawaii
hernias
Herschel, John
Hill, Andrew
Hill, Geoff
hippopotamuses
HIV and AIDS
Homo
H. erectus
H.floresiensis
H. habilis
H. heidelbergensis
H. sapiens
homosexuality
honeycreepers
hornets
horses
atavisms and vestigial features in
human behavior
Darwinization of
morality and
sexual
human embryos
lanugo of
human embryos
(cont.)
recurrent laryngeal nerve in
tail of
yolk sac of
human evolution
brain in
continuation of
Darwin on
erect posture in
in fossil record
genes in
missing links (transitional forms) in
sexual selection in
skull in
teeth in
tool use in
in timeline of life’s history
humans:
brain of
childbirth in
classification of
pseudogenes in
races of
recurrent laryngeal nerve in
vestigial traits in
hummingbirds
Husak, Jerry
hybrids:
fertile
sterile
 
iguanas
Indohyus
Ingram, Ruth
insects
plants and
speciation in
intelligent design
and adaptations benefiting more than one species
complex systems and
bad design and
Darwin’s view of
extinction and
natural selection and
Paley on
in school curriculum
transitional forms and
vestigial traits and
worldwide views on
see
also
creationism
interbreeding
islands
archipelagoes
continental
flightless birds on
Galápagos
habitat
Juan Fernández
oceanic
Ismail, Mulai
 
Jeffers, Robinson
jellyfish
Johanson, Donald
Jones, John
Jones, Steve
Juan Fernández archipelago
 
kakapos
kangaroos
katydids
Kaufman, Donald
kidneys
King, Mary-Claire
Kingdon, Jonathan
Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover Area School District et al.
kiwis
Kollar, E. J.
 
lactose tolerance
Laetoli footprints
language
symbolic
Language Instinct, The
(Pinker)
lanugo
larynx
Leakey, Louis
Leakey, Mary
lemurs
Lenski, Richard
Lindbergh, Charles
Linnaeus, Carl
lions
lizards
Lowly Origin
(Kingdon)
Lucy
Lyell, Charles
McEwan, Ian
macroevolution
Madagascar
Madden, Joah
malaria
mammals:
artiodactyl
egg-laying and
embryonic development of
in evolutionary tree of vertebrates
GLO
gene in
on islands
marsupial
placental
recurrent laryngeal nerve in
reptiles as ancestors of
in timeline of life’s history
and transitional forms between fish and amphibians
mammoths
Man of the Year
marine organisms
Eucyrtidium
Globorotalia conoidea
Pseudocubus vema
marsupials
Más a Tierra Island
matchbooks
materialism
Mayr, Ernst
Mei long
mice
coat color in
microbes
microevolution
Microraptor gui
milk
Miller, Kenneth
millipedes
Mismeasure of Man, The
(Gould)
missing links, see transitional forms
molecular clock
moles
monkeyflowers
monkeys
grasping reflex of
Monkey Trial (Scopes Trial)
Monod, Jacques
monogamy
monotremes
morality
morphological species concept
mosquitoes
mules
mutationism
mutations, see genetic mutations
 
naturalism
natural selection
animal and plant breeding and,
appendixes and
artificial selection vs.
atavisms and
and benefits to more than one species
and benefits to species vs. individual
chance and lawfulness in
complex systems formed by
compromise among adaptations in
convergent evolution and
desert plants and
design and
early skepticism toward
and embryonic development in humans
evolution by causes other than
flatfish and
flightless birds and
genetic drift vs.
geographic barriers and
heritability in
in human evolution
on islands
in laboratory
lactose tolerance and
observing
and rate of evolutionary change
recurrent laryngeal nerve and
reproductive benefits and
and resistance to drugs and poisons
sense of smell and
sexual, see sexual selection
stabilizing
variations in
vestigial traits and
Wallace and
Natural Selection in the Wild
(Endler)
natural theology
Nature
Neanderthals
New Zealand
Nilsson, Dan-Eric
Noah’s Ark
Norell, Mark
North America
 
Of Pandas and People
(Davis and Kenyon)
olfactory receptor (OR) genes
On the Origin of Species
(Darwin)
animal and plant breeding and
biogeography and
embryonic development and
eye development and
fossil record and
and link between birds and reptiles
natural selection and
speciation in
transitional forms and
orangutans
orchids
insects and
Orr, Allen
Orrorin tugensis
ostriches
 
Pakicetus
Paley, William
palimpsests
parental care
parthenogenesis
partridges
peacocks
Pearcey, Nancy
Pelger, Susanne
penguins
penicillin
Petrie, Marion
phalaropes
Pinker, Steven
pipefish
Pius XI, Pope
placenta
plankton
plants
breeding of
camouflage and
desert
distribution of
drought and
insects and
leaf shapes in
on islands
speciation in
trees,
see
trees
plate tectonics
platypuses
porpoises
Porter, Cole
pregnancy
abdominal
Price, Trevor
prickly pear cacti
primates:
GLO
gene in
sense of smell in
Princess Ida
(Gilbert and Sullivan)
prostate gland
Pruett-Jones, Stephen
Pryke, Sarah
Pseudocubus vema
pseudogenes (dead genes)
mutations in
Pseudomonas fluorescens
 
rabbits
race
radiometric dating
ragwort
Rainey, Paul
ratites
rats
Reagan, Ronald
recapitulation
recurrent laryngeal nerve
relativity, theory of
religion
creationism and
Darwin on
natural theology
science and
see
also
creationism; intelligent design
reptiles
birds evolved from
common ancestry of birds and
embryonic development and
in evolutionary tree of vertebrates
on islands
lizards
mammals evolved from

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