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polar cells 368<br />

Polkinghorne, John 156<br />

Pollan, Michael 27<br />

pollen 167, 182, 309–310, 340–<br />

342<br />

pollen tubes 378<br />

pollination<br />

coevolution <strong>of</strong> flowering plants<br />

and pollinators 78–79, 342<br />

convergences 89–90<br />

as isolating mechanism 221–<br />

222<br />

quantitative trait loci 333<br />

sexual selection and 377–378<br />

wind 78<br />

pollination mimicry 273<br />

pollution 306, 306–308<br />

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons<br />

(PAHs) 261<br />

polygamy 344<br />

polygenic traits 269<br />

polymorphism 39–40, 320, 323<br />

polyploidy 135, 266<br />

Popper, Karl 356<br />

population genetics 320–324, 320t<br />

balanced polymorphism 39–40,<br />

323<br />

changes in 322, 322–323<br />

Fisher, R. A. 161<br />

inbreeding 323<br />

isolating mechanisms 220–224<br />

measuring genetic variability<br />

321–322<br />

Origin <strong>of</strong> Species (Darwin)<br />

422–423<br />

speciation 384<br />

variability in 320–321, 323<br />

populations 318–320<br />

diversity in 318–319<br />

founder effect 168<br />

growth <strong>of</strong> 319<br />

human overpopulation 181–<br />

182<br />

limiting factors 319<br />

Malthus, Thomas 254<br />

natural selection and 282–283<br />

optimal size, individual v. group<br />

selection and 181<br />

small v. large, and speciation<br />

331<br />

synecology 140<br />

v. typological thinking 150<br />

Populus deltoides (cottonwood)<br />

340, 340, 377<br />

Porifera (sponge) 219<br />

positive eugenics 145<br />

postzygotic isolating mechanisms<br />

223–224<br />

potassium-argon dating 335<br />

potential energy 396<br />

prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster)<br />

47<br />

preadaptations 3<br />

Precambrian time 174–175, 324<br />

Ediacaran organisms 141,<br />

141–142<br />

Snowball Earth 380–381<br />

predation/predators 66, 67–68, 78<br />

preformation 132<br />

pregnancy 158, 367<br />

prehensile tails 325, 427<br />

prezygotic isolating mechanisms<br />

221–223<br />

Price, George McCready 95<br />

primates 129–131, 241t, 324–326.<br />

See also specific primates<br />

primatologist<br />

Goodall, Jane 175–176<br />

A Primer <strong>of</strong> Population Biology<br />

(Wilson, Bossert) 417<br />

Principles <strong>of</strong> Geology (Lyell) 110,<br />

250<br />

process, uniformity <strong>of</strong> 404<br />

processed pseudogenes 293<br />

Prochoerodes tranversata (maple<br />

spanworm moth) 273<br />

Proconsul africanus 237<br />

progenesis 291<br />

progress, concept <strong>of</strong> 326–327, 430<br />

prokaryotes 24, 37, 148, 418–419<br />

promiscuity 344<br />

promoters 134, 327–329<br />

prophase 264<br />

prosimians 324, 325, 326<br />

protandrous flowers 341<br />

proteins<br />

co-opted 328<br />

gene determination <strong>of</strong> 134<br />

measuring variability <strong>of</strong> 321<br />

mutations 279–280<br />

substitutability <strong>of</strong> 214–215<br />

Proterozoic Eon (era) 175, 324<br />

Proteus (tiger salamander) 291<br />

protists 149, 218–219, 249<br />

Index 461<br />

Protoavis 61<br />

protogynous flowers 341<br />

protostomes 220<br />

pseudogenes 127–128, 129–130,<br />

129t, 293, 409, 410<br />

psychology, evolutionary 172–173,<br />

383, 417<br />

Pteridinium 141<br />

pteridophytes 364–366<br />

Puereria montana (kudzu vine) 218<br />

Pulitzer Prize<br />

Wilson, Edward O. 416, 418<br />

punctuated equilibria 329, 329–332<br />

Eldredge, Niles, and 142, 253<br />

Gould, Stephen Jay 176, 253<br />

v. gradualism 176, 329, 332<br />

modern synthesis 277–278<br />

puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris)<br />

90, 90<br />

Punnett, Reginald 147<br />

Purgatorius 326<br />

pygmy chimpanzee (Pan paniscus,<br />

bonobo) 326<br />

Q<br />

quadrupeds, human 60<br />

quantitative trait loci (QTLs) 333<br />

Quaternary period 70, 333–334<br />

ice ages 205–209<br />

Quercus (oak)<br />

adaptive radiation 5m, 5–6<br />

biogeography <strong>of</strong> 51–52, 52t<br />

hybridization 202–203, 203<br />

ice ages and dispersal <strong>of</strong> 208<br />

R<br />

races<br />

Blumenback, J. F. 195<br />

brain size and 196<br />

classification <strong>of</strong> Homo sapiens<br />

194–196<br />

Cuvier, Georges 106<br />

Descent <strong>of</strong> Man (Darwin) 117,<br />

118, 196<br />

DNA 196<br />

Dobzhansky, Theodosius 137<br />

eugenics 144–148<br />

Galton, Francis (eugenics)<br />

172–173<br />

Huxley, Julian S. 200

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