Once We All Had Gills: Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World

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315 Index Abel, Othenio, 9 Aboriginal people of Australia, 155–156, 219 Abzhanov, Arhat, 179 Advancement of Sound Science Coalition , 295 AFRRI (Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute), 96–102 agnostics, 60, 252, 257 agriculture: ignoring evolution, 284–288 Aguillard, Edwards v., 266–267 Ahmanson, Howard, Jr., 270 AIDS, 270 Akihito, Japanese Crown Prince, 171 Alaska: offshore ice melt, 292 Alberch, Per, 189 Alvarez del Toro, Miguel, 112 American Cancer Society, 106 American Civil Liberties Union, 256 American Revolution loyalists, 23–24 America’s Providential History, 298 amino acids, 63, 78–79, 264–265 amphibians, 51–52 anaerobes: beginnings of life on Earth, 6–7; and possibly the end, 290, 291 Anax junius (devil’s darning needle), 67–68 Anderson, Don, 201, 203, 204 angels: belief in, 298 animal phyla: body plans established in Cambrian, 191, 215; origination in sea, 73, 235–236. See also body plans of animals ; life on Earth Animal Species and Evolution (Mayr), 195 annelids: and evolution of segmentation, 194–195 Anomalocaris, 236 Antarctica: ancient connection to Australia and South America, 217–218, 221, 225 Anthropocene age, 299, 302 antibiotics and resistance, 286, 299, 301–302 ants, 110–111, 155, 214 apatite mineral (calcium phosphate), 232, 238, 240 Apatosaurus, 30–31; Apatosaurus louisae, 31 appendages in vertebrates, 198 Arabic science, 55–56 Archaea kingdom, 194 Archaeopteryx fossil, 161, 186 Arctic: melting sea ice, 292–293 Ardipithicus ramidus, 162–163 Aristotle, 56 Arkansas Board of Education, McLean v., 266 Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI), 96–102 Armstrong, Neil, 108 Arrhenius, Svante, 291 arthropods: body plans of, 73–74; estimated number of species in world, 52–53; evolution of segmentation, 194–195; and peripatuses, 222; from the sea to land, 235 Articulata, 194 316 Index astronomy: early exposure to, 40 atheists, 252, 254 Atlas of Creation, The (Yahya), 276 atmosphere: oxygen and beginnings of life on Earth, 6–7, 245, 291 atrazine herbicide, 287–288 Australia: alternate evolution in, 217–221; ancient connection to Antarctica and South America, 217–218, 221, 225; bush advice, 216; collecting specimens, 221–227; Darwin as reluctant tourist in, 152–156; Ediacaran fossils in, 241–247; plants in, 153, 217–218, 247; visits to Sydney, 152–154, 204–207 Australian Journal of Zoology, 203 Australian sea urchins (Heliocidaris erythrogramma ), 201–211, 214, photo gallery Austria, 8–11 Autobiography (Darwin), 147 autolysis, 239 Aztecs, 114 bacteria: beginnings of life on Earth, 6–7; biochemistry of cell walls, 79; evolutionary history of, 194; in fossilization process, 239–241, photo gallery; in microbiology courses, 68–69 Bain, Jo, 241 Baltimore, David, 130–131 Banks, Joseph, 204 Barro Colorado Island, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 212–214 Beagle (Darwin’s ship), 71, 152–153 Beatty, Alice, 66–67, 72, 73, 80; Mexican expedition, 106, 109, 112–114, 115, 122, photo gallery Beatty, George, 66–67, 73–74, 80; Mexican expedition, 106–107, 108, 109, 112– 114, 115, 117, 122, photo gallery beetles: number of species, 52–53 Benjamin, Rich, 87; Searching for Whitopia , 87 Berlin, Germany, 185–187 Bible, The: laws in, 253–254, 259; literal truth of and creationism, 252, 256, 261–264, 278 biblical age of Earth, 142–143, 257, 262, 279 biblical flood, 142–143, 240, 262–263, 278 biochemistry programs, 68–70, 77–80 bioengineered crops, 284–287 biofilms, 69, photo gallery biology: complexity and variation in life, 144; textbooks, 58–63, 266 Biology for Beginners (Moon), 59 Bird, Wendell, 264 birds: in Australia, 220, 225, 246; transitional fossils to dinosaurs, 161, 162 Birmingham, Alabama: church bombing, 88, 89 birth defects in humans, 288 Black, Lewis, 278 Blue Mountains, Australia, 152, 154, 155– 156, 223–224, photo gallery Blum, Joe, 90 Bobbs-Merrill “orange biographies,” 61 Bocas del Toro, Panama, 211–212 body plans of animals, 73–74, 137, 175, 191, 196, 215 Boesman, Mary, 65 Bonner, John, 105, 185 Book of Genesis Illustrated (Crumb), 262 Botany Bay, Australia, 204 Botstein, David, 133 Boundary Waters, 84 Boyes, Donald, 265–266 Boykin, William, 254 Brachina Gorge, 245–246, photo gallery. See also Ediacaran fossils brachiopods, 225, 235 Brachiosaurus fossil, 186 Branham, William, 255 Briggs, Robert, 133 brine shrimp, photo gallery Briscoe, David, 223 Broder, John, 298 bromeliads, 111 Brown, Barnum, 32 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 87 Brownsville, Texas, 121–122 Bryan, William Jennings, 256–259 Buckland, William, 150, 151 Burgess Shale, 231, photo gallery bus to Mexico, 106–107, 113, 117–118, photo gallery Index 317 Bush, George H. W...