I Have Landed (66 page)

Koch, Robert,
(i)

Kosmos
(Humboldt),
(i)
,
(ii)

Kovalevsky, Aleksandr,
(i)

Kretschmar (collector),
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L
abeling fallacy,
(i)

Lafargue, Paul,
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Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Lamarckism,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

lampreys,
(i)
,
(ii)

landscape painting,
(i)

language

control over,
(i)

etymology and,
(i)
,
(ii)

misunderstandings in,
(i)

Lankester, E. Ray,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

La Peyrère, Isaac,
(i)

Lapis judaicus
(jew stone),
(i)

Lapis lyncis
(lynx stone),
(i)

lateral gene transfer (LGT),
(i)

Laughter in the Dark
(Nabokov),
(i)

Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent,
(i)

Lear, Edward,
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Lee, Robert E.,
(i)
,
(ii)

legends, debunking of,
(i)

Leigh, Mike,
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Lely, Durward,
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Lenin, V. I.,
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Leonardo da Vinci,
(i)
,
(ii)

lepidoptery,
see
butterflies

Lessner, Friedrich,
(i)

Lester, Joseph,
(i)

Levine, James,
(i)

Lewes, G. H.,
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Lewontin, Dick,
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LGT (lateral gene transfer),
(i)

Libavius, Andreas,
(i)

liberalism

and Darwinism,
(i)

reaction against,
(i)

libertarianism,
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Liebknecht, Wilhelm,
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lignum vitae
,
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Lincoln, Abraham,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

Lindbergh, Charles,
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Linnaean taxonomy,
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,
(ii)
,
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,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Linnaeus, Carolus,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

literature

agelessness of,
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Nabokov's accuracy in,
(i)
,
(ii)

and science,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

translations in,
(i)

Lochner, G.,
(i)

Lodge, Henry Cabot,
(i)

Lolita
(Nabokov),
(i)

Lombroso, Cesare,
(i)

Longuet, Charles,
(i)

Looney Tunes,
(i)

“Lost Chord” (Sullivan),
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Lost World, The
(Doyle),
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Louis XIV, king of France,
(i)

Lucifer,
(i)

Lucretius,
(i)

Luther, Martin,
(i)

Lyell, Charles,
(i)

Lying Stones of Marrakech, The
(Gould),
(i)

Lyme disease,
(i)

 

M
acaques, potato-washing by,
(i)

McClellan, George,
(i)

McGinnis, John O.,
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McGwire, Mark,
(i)

McNamara, John,
(i)

magnetism, physical effect of,
(i)

Mahale Mountain chimps,
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Malays, classification of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Malthus, Thomas Robert,
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mammals

Cenozoic,
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egg cells of,
(i)

evolution of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

vs. dinosaurs,
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Man in Full, A
(Wolfe),
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maniraptors,
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maps,
(i)
,
(ii)

Marx, Karl,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Marx, Eleanor,
(i)

Mary
(Nabokov),
(i)

mathematics, zero lacking in,
(i)

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor,
(i)

Mayr, Ernst,
(i)
n

Medawar, P. B.,
(i)

melancholy (dry-cold humor),
(i)
,
(ii)

Melanchthon,
(i)

mementos,
(i)

memory

and aging,
(i)

associative,
(i)

paradox of,
(i)

Mendel, Gregor Johann,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

mental retardation,
(i)

Mercati, Michael,
(i)
,
(ii)

mercury, as syphilis cure,
(i)
,
(ii)

Merian, Maria,
(i)

Mesmer, Friedrich Anton,
(i)
,
(ii)

Mesozoa,
(i)
,
(ii)

Metamorphosis
(Ovid),
(i)

metapsychology, Freudian,
(i)

Metazoa,
(i)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
(i)

Metropolitan Opera, New York,
(i)
,
(ii)

mice, genetic research on,
(i)

Michelangelo,
(i)

Mikado, The
(Gilbert and Sullivan),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Milky Way galaxy,
(i)
,
(ii)

millennium,
(i)
n
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

new, start of,
(i)
,
(ii)

odometer rationale of,
(i)

original,
(i)

and second coming,
(i)
,
(ii)

Miller, Jonathan,
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Milton, John,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

mimicry,
(i)
,
(ii)

minerals, classification of,
(i)

Mismeasure of Man, The
(Gould),
(i)
,
(ii)

moa, extinction of,
(i)

Mongolians, classification of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de,
(i)

morals, anthropology of,
(i)

More, Henry,
(i)

morphology,
(i)

Moscardo, Ludovico,
(i)

Moses,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Moses and Monotheism
(Freud),
(i)
,
(ii)

moths,
(i)
,
(ii)

motivation,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Mount Caucasus,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Mourning and Melancholia
(Freud),
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
(i)
,
(ii)

Mundus subterraneus
(Kircher),
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Murray, John,
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Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Museum of Natural History, New York,
(i)
,
(ii)

mutual reinforcement,
(i)

 

N
abokov, Vera,
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Nabokov, Vladimir

accuracy esteemed by,
(i)
,
(ii)

and attention to detail,
(i)

childhood of,
(i)
,
(ii)

as conservative specialist,
(i)
,
(ii)

at Cornell,
(i)
,
(ii)

drawings by,
(i)

equal impact argument and,
(i)

error of,
(i)

at Harvard,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

language mastery of,
(i)
n

lepidoptery of,
(i)
,
(ii)

literary work of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

methods of,
(i)
,
(ii)

and myth of artistry,
(i)

and myth of courage,
(i)

and myth of innovation,
(i)

and myth of literary quality,
(i)

natural selection challenged by,
(i)

and paradox of intellectual promiscuity,
(i)
,
(ii)

as professional taxonomist,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

unique contributions of,
(i)
,
(ii)

naming, social change in,
(i)

Napoleon III,
(i)
,
(ii)

narcissistic neuroses,
(i)
,
(ii)

National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.,
(i)

National Park Service, U.S.,
(i)

Native Americans,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

native plants,
(i)

adaptation argument for,
(i)

definition of,
(i)

exotics vs.,
(i)

fortuitous transplant of,
(i)

geographic argument for,
(i)

“weeds,”
(i)

nativism, downside of,
(i)

natural history

collections in,
(i)

creation myths and,
(i)
,
(ii)

descriptive,
(i)

diversity in,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

humanistic,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

mimicry in,
(i)
,
(ii)

primary subject matter of,
(i)

professional joys of,
(i)

replication with difference in,
(i)
,
(ii)

variation in,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Natural History
(Pliny),
(i)

natural selection

absence of directionality in,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

adaptation in,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

competition in,
(i)
,
(ii)

complexity of,
(i)

Darwinian sense of,
(i)

Darwin's theory of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)

impact of,
(i)
,
(ii)

Nabokov's challenge to,
(i)

predictability and,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

randomness of,
(i)

variational basis of,
(i)
,
(ii)

nature

competition in,
(i)

complexity of,
(i)

continuity in,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

convention vs.,
(i)

Darwin's heartless view of,
(i)
,
(ii)

harmony in,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)

human domination over,
(i)

indifference of,
(i)

interaction of mind and,
(i)

in landscape painting,
(i)

love of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

microcosm and macrocosm in,
(i)

modification of,
(i)

presuppositions about,
(i)

understanding of,
(i)
,
(ii)

universal pattern sought in,
(i)

Nature
magazine,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Nature's Designs
(Smyser),
(i)

“Nature's Questioning” (Hardy),
(i)

Neapolitan (Italian) disease,
(i)

neuroses, classification of,
(i)

Newcastle, Duchess of,
(i)

Newton, Isaac,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

New York City

Central Park in,
(i)

Ground Zero in,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

subways of,
(i)

Woolworth Building in,
(i)

New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players (GASP),
(i)

New York Mets,
(i)

New York Post
,
(i)

New York Times, The
,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

New York Yankees,
(i)
,
(ii)

Nishida, Toshisada,
(i)

Noah, and the flood,
(i)

novelty,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

numerology,
(i)