Darwin and the Nature of Species

Index

Index  adaptations, xvi, 9, 33, 75, 88–89, 90, 91–94, 103–106, 111, 118, 120, 122, 126–129, 132, 148–150, 183, 200, 225, 234n2, 235n3 (ch. 4), 235n3 (ch. 5), 239n10, 245n3, 245n5, 246n9 Agassiz, Louis, 12, 19, 42, 135–136, 145, 172, 173, 181, 216, 226–227, 231n2, 239n1, 239n2, 241n11, 243n17, 245n4 Alter, Stephen G., 52, 56 Alvarez, Luis, xi–xii “amount of difference,” 67, 85–88, 148, 241n8 angiosperms, 74 apostasy, 203 archetypes, 181, 247n10 Archimedes, 151 argument from design, 34, 160, 245n3 Aristotle, 24, 29–30, 43, 133, 134, 137, 145, 153–155, 240n1 artificial selection, 34, 89–90, 91–92, 201, 235n3 (ch. 5), 245n5 asexual organisms, 125 Ashton, Paul A., 74, 77 Babbage, Charles, 54 Babington, Charles Cardale, 13 Babinski, Edward T., 203 baboons, 18 Baer, Karl von, 73, 247n10 barnacles, 7–8, 46–49, 84, 86, 88, 148, 155, 161, 173, 189, 216, 221, 224, 234n3, 241n8 Bates, Henry Walter, 116, 119–121, 122 Baum, David A., 63 Beatty, John, xi, xvii, 19, 26, 28, 81–82, 110, 133, 158–164, 166, 174, 95–196, 197–199, 205, 240n2, 244n8 Beck, Henrick Henricksen, 146 Beer, Gillian, 56 Bentham, George, 13, 26, 92, 183–184, 226, 231n2, 242n14 Bergmann’s Rule, 233n1 Big Bang, 22–23 biodiversity, xii–xiii, 189, 229 biological species concept, xiii, 4, 18, 37, 39, 42, 76, 108, 111, 116, 117, 119, 125, 127–128, 130, 156, 158, 237n2, 238n6 Blyth, Edward, 68–69, 132, 137, 140–141, 144, 147, 174, 185 Bopp, Franz, 55, 56 Bowler, Peter J., 209–210, 212, 213, 218, 244n9 Boyd, Richard, 226, 247n10 Brocchi, Giovanni, 41 Bronn, Heinrich, 55 Browne, Janet, 207, 246n8 Bruno, Giordano, 189 Buffon, Georges Louis-Leclerc Comte de, 4, 138, 145, 226, 227 Busk, George, 242n15 Butler, Joseph, 146 267 butterflies, 116, 119–120, 123 Camardi, Giovanni, 247n10 Candolle, Alphonse de, 173 Candolle, Augustin-Pyramus de, 122, 170, 236n8 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 178, 242n15 caste polymorphism, 235n3 (ch. 3) categories, 22–25, 27–28, 30, 153–156, 190. See also species, category v. taxon cats, 141 cattle, 68–69, 113, 132, 190, 237n1 Chalmers, A.F., 243n2 Chambers, Robert, 9, 11, 57, 105, 161, 163, 180, 184, 185, 192, 234n4, 245n3, 246n7 Chomsky, Noam, 208 chronospecies, 62–63 cladism, 38, 58, 66–67, 73, 74–79, 127–128 cladistic species concept, 51, 61, 63 classes, 21–22, 27, 29 classification. See natural system/ classification clusterism, 225–226, 247n10 common descent, xvi, ch. 4, 85, 87, 90, 91, 102, 127, 132, 168, 184, 200, 210, 216, 225, 243n16 Comte, Auguste, 103 “confessing a murder,” 172 “consilience of inductions,” 96–97, 221 “constant and distinct” characters, 69, 87–88, 89–90, 114, 116–117, 118, 120, 127, 132, 148–149, 155, 241n8 constellations, 1, 19, 26 convergence, 69–70, 87, 236n9, 239n10 conversion, 105, 170–184, 191, 192–194, 200, 201–, 242n15, 243n2, 243n4, 244n9 Copernicus, Nicolaus, 211, 245n2 correlation, 220 Cowan, S.T., 18 cowslips. See primroses and cowslips Cracraft, Joel, xiii, 63, 129, 189 creationism, 3, 17, 82, 94, 123, 135, 153, 157, 166, 167, 168, 170, 179–180, 185–186, 192, 193, 200, 212, 216, 231n3, 241n6, 243n17, 247n10 creationist species concept, 82, 83, 165–166 Crinum, 126 crystallography, 35, 101–102, 236n8, 236n9 Cuvier, Georges, 73, 181, 245n4, 247n10 Dana, James Dwight, 142–143, 144, 145, 166, 227 Darwin, Emma, 222 Darwin, Erasmus, 105, 246n8 Darwin, Francis, 41, 241n9 Darwin-Knight law, 99, 115 Davies, Anna Morpurgo, 55 Dawkins, Richard, 23, 27, 61 Dawson, John, 13 deer, 120, 239n9 definition, 29–30, 43–44, 46, 48, 81, 84, 88, 99, 133, 154–156, 159, 162, 163, 165–166, 171, 174–175, 195, 240n4 Dennett, Daniel C., 212 de Queroz, Kevin, 49 Desmond, Adrian, xvii, 173, 175, 180–181, 208–209, 217, 218–220, 222, 223, 242n15, 246n6, 246n7, 246n8, 246n9 “developmental hypothesis,” 57 “Devil’s chaplain,” 160 Dewey, John, xvii, 187–189, 212 divergence, principle of, 9, 34, 46, 69, 73, 85, 147, 219–222, 228–229, 244n9 division of labor, 219–222 Dobzhansky, Theodosius, xv, 4, 127, 209, 228 dogs, 67–68, 70, 109–110, 113, 141, 179, 190, 237n1, 242n14 Dollo, Louis, 32 Dollo’s Law, 32–33, 233n1 domestication, 237n1 Donnellan, Keith, 195 ducks, 72 Dupré, John, 59 Dupree, A. Hunter, 170, 171 Eaton, John Matthews, 90–91, 182–183 268 INDEX ecological niches, xvi, 9, 32, 45, 70, 72, 90...