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460 Index<br />

parent-<strong>of</strong>fspring conflict 158, 242<br />

parliament <strong>of</strong> genes 369<br />

parthenogenesis 371<br />

particulate inheritance 267, 268,<br />

277<br />

Parus caeruleus (blue tit) 173<br />

The Passing <strong>of</strong> the Great Race<br />

(Grant) 146<br />

Pasteur, Louis 300<br />

paternity identification 259<br />

path analysis 419<br />

pathogens, evolution <strong>of</strong> 157–158,<br />

337<br />

The Pattern <strong>of</strong> <strong>Evolution</strong> (Eldredge)<br />

142<br />

Patterson, Clair 336, 359<br />

pawpaw (Asimina triloba) 81<br />

pax gene 93, 120<br />

pb gene 118, 119t<br />

Pearson, Karl 148<br />

Pei, Mario 233<br />

Peking man 188, 395<br />

pelycosaurs 255, 346<br />

penicillin 347, 348<br />

Pennock, Robert 152<br />

Pennsylvanian time 68<br />

pentaploid cells 371<br />

Penzias, Arno 406<br />

peppered moths (Biston betularia)<br />

306, 306–309<br />

peptide nucleic acid (PNA) 301–<br />

302<br />

Pereskia 274<br />

perfect v. imperfect adaptation 1–2<br />

peripatric speciation 384<br />

Permian extinction 262, 271,<br />

309–312<br />

Permian period 88m, 182, 312<br />

permineralization 165<br />

Permo-Triassic boundary 309–310<br />

Persea americana (avocado) 81<br />

pesticides 347, 348–350<br />

petals 20<br />

Petralona skull (Greece) 192, 275<br />

petrified wood 166, 166<br />

Phacops rana 401<br />

Phalaropus lobatus (red-necked<br />

phalarope) 376<br />

Phanerozoic Eon 175<br />

The Phenomenon <strong>of</strong> Man (Teilhard<br />

de Chardin) 395<br />

phenotype 116, 321<br />

phenotypic plasticity 2–3<br />

phenylketonuria (PKU) 271<br />

Phillips, John 309<br />

philosophers<br />

Spencer, Herbert 387–388<br />

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre 395<br />

Philosophie Zoologique (Lamarck)<br />

231<br />

phloem 182<br />

phobias 382<br />

phosphoglucose isomerase 399<br />

photons 396<br />

photosynthesis 57, 179–180, 309,<br />

312–314<br />

photosynthetic bacteria 313<br />

photosynthetic cells 313<br />

phrenology 145<br />

phyla (phylum) 247, 249<br />

PhyloCode 75<br />

phylogenetically independent<br />

observations 4<br />

phylogenetic analysis. See cladistics<br />

phylogenetic effect 4<br />

phylogenetic species concept 384<br />

phylogenetic trees 55<br />

physicians<br />

Darwin, Erasmus 113<br />

Dubois, Eugène 137–138<br />

Pianka, Eric 240<br />

Picasso, Pablo 102<br />

Picea glauca (white spruce) 126,<br />

126<br />

Pickford, Martin 31<br />

pickleweed (Spartina) 203<br />

pidgin languages 233<br />

pied flycatcher 344<br />

Pielou, E. C. 50<br />

pigeon (Columba) 26, 62, 283, 422<br />

Pikaia gracilens 65, 66<br />

Piltdown man 314–315, 395<br />

Pingelap Atoll 168<br />

Pinus longeava (bristlecone pine)<br />

243<br />

pistils 340<br />

Pithecanthropus erectus See Homo<br />

erectus<br />

PKU (phenylketonuria) 271<br />

placebo effect 357<br />

placenta 158, 256<br />

placental mammals 52–53, 91, 242,<br />

256–257, 414<br />

placoderms 162<br />

placozoans 219<br />

planctomycetes 149<br />

planetary orbits 298<br />

planets. See solar system<br />

plants<br />

angiosperms, evolution <strong>of</strong><br />

20–22<br />

artificial selection 27–28<br />

convergent evolution in 89–90<br />

cytoplasmic male sterility<br />

factors 367–368<br />

defenses 77, 90, 90, 237–238<br />

Devonian period 121<br />

DeVries, Hugo 121–122<br />

gymnosperms 182–183<br />

and herbivores, coevolution 77<br />

horizontal gene transfer 198<br />

hybridization 202–203, 202t,<br />

203<br />

leaf adaptations 2, 3, 4, 167<br />

MADS genes 118, 120<br />

Permian extinction 309–311<br />

photosynthesis 312–314<br />

seedless 364–366, 365<br />

sexual reproduction 370<br />

Stebbins, G. Ledyard 388<br />

vestigal characteristics 409–<br />

410<br />

plasmids 197, 280<br />

Plasmodium falciparum 390<br />

plasticity 2–3, 71, 285<br />

plate tectonics 315–317, 316m<br />

Plato 354<br />

Platonist idealism 150<br />

Platyhelinthes (flatworms) 220<br />

platyrrhines 325<br />

play (playfulness) 292<br />

pleiotropic genes 243, 245<br />

Pleistocene epoch 205<br />

Pleistocene extinction 199, 317–<br />

318, 317t, 318t<br />

Pleistocene overkill hypothesis 318<br />

plenitude 354<br />

plesiadapiform primates 326<br />

Plethodon jordani (salamander)<br />

375<br />

Pliohippus 199<br />

Plutonists 69<br />

PNA (peptide nucleic acid) 301–302<br />

pneumonic plague 80<br />

poison ivy 159<br />

polar bodies 265

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