Index eukaryotes 94-5, 116-17 mutualism 93 evolution, what is it? 8 evolutionary epistemology natural selection 7, 24ff adaptations 37, 89

adaptive prediction 60

allopatric speciation 112

altruism 68-86, 160-2

Alvarez, Luis 129

ancestor, common 17

anisogamy 101

antibiotics 92

apes see primates

Aristotle 9

158

extinction 126-35

Neanderthals 140

Occam's razor 45--6

feathers, development 43 Oparin,Aleksandr122

fossils 13-17

Gaia hypothesis 137

Paley, William 35-7, 44

peacocks 85-7, 90

gametes 99-101

gene pools 105-7

phenetic species concept

108

genes 21, 48--67, 102-5 primates 20

artificial intelligence 164-8 see a/so altruism;

prokaryotes 94-5, 115-17

proteins 49-50

asexual reproduction 97-8, mutation; selfish

101-4, 106

Axelrod, Robert 83

gene, the genetic algorithms 165-7 random drift 57 -9 God 5--6, 34, 38, 45--6, 157 Ray, Thomas 167

bacteria 92, 93

behaviour 77-8

Bible, the 12

biological design see design species concept 107,

109-12

biosphere 137

Boyer, Pascal 157

butterflies 29-33, 39, 41

carbon dating 16

cells, division 51-2

Church, the 4, 11

cladism 118

clone 98

co-evolution 93

Haldane, J.B .S. 122

Hamilton, Bill 80

heredity 48

Homo sapiens 20

Homo neandertha/ensis

140

human culture 144-5, 150-6

life 131

mind 147

nature 146

humans as destroyers 132-40

extinct 134

invertebrates, first 18

computer viruses 27, 165 isogamy 101

creation 10

creationism 22-4, 169-72 kin selection 80-1

cumulative selection 42

language 141-5

reciprocal altruism 82-5

relatives 80-1

reproduction 87, 95-105

reproductive isolation 105

runaway evolution 90-2

selfish gene, the 66-81,

102

sex see reproduction sexual reproduction 98-105

selection 88-92

Smith, Adam 162

speciation 109-12

species biological concept 107,

109-12

classifying 113-20

fixed 8-11

isolated 105

new 109, 128

phenetic concept 108

Darwin, Charles 3-6, 25, Laplace, Pierre Simon de Sperber, Dan 155

121-2, 172, 174-5

46

splitting 110

Dawkins, Richard 44, 66, life, origin 121-5

154,163

Locke, John 144

stem cell 52

Dennett, Daniel 6

design 35ff

Lovelock, James 137

Tierra 167

Trivers, Robert 82

dinosaurs 128-31

DNA49

domains 115-16, 120

earth age of 12

as an organism 135-7

ecological disaster 133

environment 54

ethics 159

meiosis 99

Miller

Geoffrey 151-3

Stanley 123

Mithen, Steven 148-50

mitosis 96, 99

modules 148

monkeys see primates moths 47

mutation 55-65, 103-4

Ussher, Bishop 12

vertebrates, first 18

Wallace, Alfred Russel 4

whales 19

wings, development 43

woodpecker 36

zygote 96, 99

176