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Illustration Credits
Figures 1-3: Illustrations by Kalliopi Monoyios.
Figure 4: Illustration by Kalliopi Monoyios after Malmgren and Kennett (1981).
Figure 5: Illustration by Kalliopi Monoyios after Kellogg and Hays (1975).
Figure 6: Illustration by Kalliopi Monoyios after Sheldon (1987).
Figure 7: Illustration by Kalliopi Monoyios after Kellogg and Hays (1975).
Figure 8: Illustration by Kalliopi Monoyios.
Figure 9: Illustration by Kalliopi Monoyios
(Compsognathus
after Peyer 2006).
Figure 10A: Illustration of
Sinornithosaurus
by Mick Ellison, used with permission; fossil, with permission of the American Museum of Natural History.
Figure 10B: Illustration of
Microraptor
by Kalliopi Monoyios; fossil, with permission of the American Museum of Natural History.
Figure 11. Illustration of
Mei long
by Mick Ellison, used with permission; fossil, with permission of the American Museum of Natural History; sparrow photograph courtesy of José Luis Sanz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Figure 12: Illustration by Kalliopi Monoyios.
Figure 13: Illustration by Kalliopi Monoyios after Wilson et al. (1967).
Figure 14: Illustrations by Kalliopi Monoyios, tail photographs from Bar-Maor et al. (1980), used with permission of the
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
Figure 15: Zebrafish photograph courtesy of Dr. Victoria Prince, human embryo photograph courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Figure 16: Illustrations by Kalliopi Monoyios.
Figure 17: Illustrations by Alison E. Burke.
Figure 18: Photographs by Dr. Ivan Misek, used with permission.
Figure 19: Illustrations by Alison E. Burke.
Figure 20: Illustrations by Kalliopi Monoyios.
Figure 21: Illustrations by Kalliopi Monoyios, fossil distribution after McLoughlin (2001).
Figures 22, 23: Illustrations by Kalliopi Monoyios.
Figure 24: Illustration by Kalliopi Monoyios after Wood (2002).
Figures 25-27: Illustrations by Kalliopi Monoyios.
Index
Acanthostega gunnari
adaptations
with benefits to more than one species
compromise among
convergent
vestigial traits and
see also
natural selection
adaptive radiations
Adventures with the Missing Link
(Dart)
Africa
child mortality in
human evolution in ; see
also
human evolution
Agassiz, Louis
aging
AIDS and HIV
Alexander the Great
alleles
Ambulocetus
Americas
amphibians
embryonic development and
on islands
Amundsen, Roald
Andersson, Malte
Andersson, Steffan
Animal Species and Evolution
(Mayr)
Antarctica
anteaters
antibiotics
ants:
acacia trees and
roundworms and
with wasplike features
aortic arches
apes
grasping reflex of
appendixes
Archaeopteryx lithographica
arches, embryonic
aortic
branchial
Archimedes Palimpsest
archipelagoes
Galápagos
Juan Fernández
Aristotle
armadillos
arrector pili
arthropods
artiodactyls
Asia
atavisms
atheism
atomic theory
Australia
australopithecines
Australopithecus afarensis
Australopithecus africanus
Australopithecus (Paranthropus) bosei
Axel, Richard
 
babies:
birth weights of
grasping reflex of
bacteria
drug resistance in
flagella of
in timeline of life’s history
bananas
Basilosaurus
bats
Beagle,
HMS
bees
orchids and
beetles
Behe, Michael
biogeography (species distribution)
continents and
creationism and
islands and, see islands
birds:
body size of
common ancestry of reptiles and
development of
evolution of
finches
flight in
flightless
hummingbirds
on islands
mutationism and
parental care in
peacocks
sexual selection in
sparrows
speciation in
teeth and
in timeline of life’s history
woodpeckers
birds of paradise
birth
blackbirds
blind mole rats
blood clotting
blood types
blood vessels (circulatory system)
“Bloody Sire, The” (Jeffers)
bonobos
bowerbirds
branchial arches
breeding:
domestic
interbreeding
Brown, Donald
Brunet, Michel
Buck, Linda
Burley, Nancy
Bush, George W
cacti
caecum
Caesar, Julius
camouflage
Carroll, Scott
cats
Chapman, Matthew
chickens
childbirth
child care
children sired, record numbers of
chimpanzees
brains of
GLO
gene in
humans’ genetic resemblance to
leg bones of
skulls of
teeth of
viruses and
China
Chomsky, Noam
chordates
Christianity see
also
religion
chukar partridges
circulatory system (blood vessels)
classification of animals and plants
coccyx
common ancestry
of birds and reptiles
convergent evolution and
dead genes and
fossil record and
geographic separation and
in human evolution
on islands
molecular clock and
comparative anatomy
Constitution, U.S.
continental drift
continents
convergent evolution
corals
Coulter, Ann
cows
creationism
and adaptations benefiting more than one species
and adaptations benefiting species vs. individual
and age of earth
and classification of animals and plants
complex systems and
and distribution of species
eye development and
fossil record and
in Galápagos archipelago
human evolution and
natural theology
Origin of Species
and
religion and
in school curriculum
sexual selection and
speciation and
transitional forms and
worldwide views on
see
also
intelligent design
culture
 
damselflies
Dart, Raymond
Darwin, Charles
animal and plant breeding and
biogeography and
The Descent of Man
on design
embryology and
eye development and
on fossil record
genetic drift and
on human evolution
on scientific ignorance
and link between birds and reptiles
on natural selection
On the Origin of Species, see On the Origin of Species
peacocks and
sexual selection and
speciation and
transitional forms and
vestigial traits and
Darwin, Erasmus
Darwinism, see evolution
Darwin’s Black Box
(Behe)
Dawkins, Richard
deer
antlers of
DeLay, Tom
Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, The
(Darwin)
deserts
plants in
design
imperfection of see
also
intelligent design
diabetes
Dial, Kenneth
dinosaurs:
in common ancestry of birds and reptiles
extinction of
in fossil record
theropod
diseases
race and
distribution of species,
see
biogeography
divergent selection
DNA
blood clotting and
dead genes and
genetic drift and
human evolution and
molecular clock and
mutations in
speciation and
see also
genes
Dobzhansky, Theodosius
dogs
dolphins
embryonic development in
Doolittle, Fred
Doolittle, Russell
Dorudon
dragonflies
Drosophila
(fruit flies)
drought
drug resistance
Dubois, Eugene
 
ears, wiggling of
earth:
age of
changes in; see
also
continental drift
E. coli
Eddington, Arthur
education, evolution/creationism debate and
eggs
laying of
post-mating competition and
speciation and
Einstein, Albert
elephant seals
elk
embryonic arches
aortic
branchial
embryos
fish
horse
human, see human embryos
shark
whale
Endler, John
environmental change
Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA)
Eucyrtidium
eukaryotes
euphorbs
Eusthenopteron foordi
evolution
atavisms and
biogeographic evidence for, see biogeography
bad design and
chance and lawfulness in
common ancestry in, see common ancestry
controversies in
convergent
dead genes and
doubts about

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