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ocean currents 179, 207<br />

Oceanian realm 50, 51m<br />

ochre stone 187, 195<br />

octopus 213<br />

Odoraia alata 66<br />

Oenothera lamarckiana (evening<br />

primrose) 121–122<br />

Okamoto, Noriko 390<br />

Oklahoma<br />

creationism 98, 361, 364<br />

disjunct alder population 125–<br />

126<br />

old-Earth creationists 94<br />

old man <strong>of</strong> Shanidar 289, 290<br />

Oldowan tools 192, 393<br />

Flores Island people 163<br />

Homo erectus 189<br />

Homo ergaster 190<br />

Homo habilis 187, 192<br />

Olduvai George 237<br />

Old World monkeys 325<br />

Oligocene epoch 326<br />

omniscience 214<br />

One Long Argument (Mayr) 421<br />

On Growth and Form (Thompson)<br />

15<br />

On Human Nature (Wilson) 382,<br />

416, 417<br />

“On the Tendency <strong>of</strong> Varieties to<br />

Depart Indefinitely from the<br />

Original Type” (Wallace) 413<br />

oocytes 265, 266<br />

Oort cloud 28, 298<br />

Opabinia regalis 65, 66<br />

Oparin, Aleksandr I. 186, 273, 300<br />

Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis 186<br />

opposable thumbs 324<br />

orangutans 325–326<br />

orchids 204<br />

orders 247, 249<br />

Ordovician period 295<br />

Orgel, Leslie 296, 298, 301, 302<br />

Oriental realm 50, 51m<br />

“The Origin <strong>of</strong> Human Races and<br />

the Antiquity <strong>of</strong> Man Deduced<br />

from the Theory <strong>of</strong> Natural<br />

Selection” (Wallace) 414<br />

origin <strong>of</strong> life 295–296, 298–302<br />

anthropic principle 23–24<br />

dates <strong>of</strong> 296<br />

definition <strong>of</strong> life 295–296<br />

earliest evidence <strong>of</strong> life 224<br />

on Earth 298–301<br />

extraterrestrial 298, 299<br />

genetic systems 301–302<br />

laboratory simulations 300–301<br />

Miller, Stanley 272–273<br />

organic molecules in universe<br />

298–299<br />

thermodynamics and 398<br />

Origin <strong>of</strong> Species [On the Origin<br />

<strong>of</strong> Species . . .] (Darwin) 112,<br />

302–304<br />

biogeography 50<br />

character displacement 71<br />

cladistics and 75–76<br />

Gray, Asa, and 178<br />

Huxley, Thomas Henry 201<br />

mimicry 40<br />

summary 421–435<br />

ornithischians (bird-hipped<br />

dinosaurs) 123<br />

ornithologist (Mayr, Ernst) 263<br />

ornithopods 124<br />

Oró, John 300<br />

Orrorin tugenensis 31–32<br />

Osage orange (Maclura pomifera) 81<br />

Osbeck, Peter 249<br />

ostriches 426<br />

Ōta, Tomoko 278<br />

Out <strong>of</strong> Africa theory 104, 130<br />

Out <strong>of</strong> the Night (Muller) 145<br />

overkill hypothesis 318<br />

Overton, William 97<br />

ovulation, concealed 345<br />

ovules 340<br />

Owen, Richard 95, 112, 122, 201,<br />

304, 416<br />

Oxalis pes-caprae 371, 385<br />

oxidative stress 244, 245<br />

oxygen<br />

Cambrian explosion 67<br />

Devonian period 121<br />

Gaia hypothesis 169, 170<br />

Permian extinction 309<br />

photosynthesis 314<br />

Proterozoic Eon 324<br />

respiration 350<br />

oxygen debt 350<br />

oxygen isotopes 206, 207, 224,<br />

225, 226, 309<br />

P<br />

p53 gene 245<br />

Pääbo, Svante 130, 290<br />

Index 459<br />

pachycephalosaurs 123<br />

Pacific Plate 316, 317<br />

paedomorphosis 291<br />

PAHs (polycyclic aromatic<br />

hydrocarbons) 261<br />

Pakicetus 416<br />

Palaearctic realm 50, 51m<br />

Paleocene epoch 256, 326<br />

Paleogene period 70, 395<br />

Paleolithic Age 393, 394t<br />

paleomagnetism 86, 87, 305<br />

paleontologists<br />

Agassiz, Louis 6–7<br />

Cuvier, Georges 105–106<br />

Eldredge, Niles 142–143<br />

Owen, Richard 304<br />

Simpson, George Gaylord<br />

379–380<br />

Paleozoic era 175, 182, 305–306<br />

Paley, William 1, 95, 109, 155,<br />

286–287, 303<br />

palynology 167<br />

Panama land bridge 256–257<br />

pandas 1–2<br />

Panderichthys rhombolepis 19<br />

Pangaea 88m<br />

continental drift 84, 86<br />

Cretaceous period 101<br />

Mesozoic era 271–272<br />

Permian extinction 311<br />

Permian period 312<br />

pangenes/pangenesis 121, 132<br />

Panglossian paradigm 3<br />

Pan paniscus (bonobo) 326<br />

panspermia 298, 361<br />

Pan troglodytes (chimpanzees)<br />

Goodall, Jane 175–176<br />

humans and 130, 186, 187<br />

neoteny 291<br />

primates 326<br />

Papua New Guinea. See also New<br />

Guinea<br />

Sambia tribe 323<br />

paradigms 356<br />

Paramecium 389<br />

Paranthropus 34, 34, 192, 237<br />

parapatric speciation 384<br />

paraphyletic categories 74–75<br />

parasitism<br />

balanced pathogenicity 181<br />

coevolution 77, 77t, 79, 80, 82<br />

convergent evolution 90<br />

horizontal gene transfer 198

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