The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution (38 page)

Typhloesus wellsi
,
68

Ukhaa Tolgod,
64

Usher’s syndrome,
1–2

vaccination,
26

variation: genetic,
33
; as hedge against developmental error,
27
; heritable,
22–23
,
27
; human,
74
; maintenance of,
23
; relationship with genes,
24

Velociraptor
,
52–54

virophages,
49

viruses,
48–50

vision,
162–63

von Baer, Karl Ernst,
36

Walker, Alan:
The Wisdom of Bones
,
131

walking.
See
locomotion, human

Welles, Orson,
99

Wells, H. G.:
The War Of The Worlds
,
99
,
145

western scrub jay,
158
,
163–64

Wilde, Oscar,
154

Wilson, Allan C.,
91

Wood, Bernard,
87

writing,
155

Xiaotingia
,
54

yeti,
80

Young, John Zachary,
110
;
The Life of Vertebrates
,
37–38

Zallinger, Rudolph F.:
The Age Of Reptiles
,
100
;
The March Of Progress
,
100

Zhoukoudian,
84

Zinjanthropus boisei
. See
Paranthropus boisei