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Index<br />

Note: page numbers in italics refer to figures,<br />

those in bold refer to tables and boxes.<br />

Footnotes are indicated by “n” suffix to the<br />

page number.<br />

abalone 392–3<br />

Abd-A gene 585<br />

Acanthostega (aquatic tetrapod) 540, 541<br />

acquired characters see inheritance of acquired<br />

characters<br />

acquired immune deficiency syndrome see<br />

AIDS<br />

Acrocehalus secheliensis (Seychelles warbler)<br />

339–40<br />

adaptation(s) 5–6, 10, 67, 682<br />

armaments 638<br />

beneficial effects 293–306<br />

beneficiaries 310<br />

biological molecules 158<br />

body size 276–7<br />

cell lines 296, 305–6<br />

characters 286<br />

comparative methods 271–2, 683<br />

complex 601<br />

consequences 294<br />

constraints 284–5<br />

developmental 275–80<br />

genetic 274–5<br />

historic 281–4<br />

continuity 263–6<br />

continuous evolution 263–6<br />

defenses 638<br />

ecological 370, 386–7<br />

engineering design 287–8<br />

function change 264–5<br />

genetics 266–70, 305–6<br />

experimental studies 268–9<br />

geographic variation of species 359–60<br />

group 301–4, 305<br />

imperfections 272–86<br />

mutations 268<br />

natural selection 75–6, 156, 256–63<br />

benefits 294–306<br />

organ functions 284<br />

polar 552<br />

random drift 258<br />

reproductive fitness 287–8<br />

rudimentary stages 262–3<br />

sex ratio 337–41<br />

sexual reproduction 314–43<br />

study methods 270–2<br />

time lags 272–4<br />

trade-off between needs 284<br />

tropical 552<br />

unrelated part combination 265–6<br />

valley crossing 394–5, 600–1<br />

variation 88<br />

see also coadaptation<br />

Adaptation and Natural Selection (Williams)<br />

307<br />

adaptive breakthroughs 645<br />

adaptive evolution 88, 157, 158<br />

model 178<br />

adaptive peaks 217, 218, 219, 268<br />

different starting conditions 283<br />

giraffe laryngeal nerve 282–3<br />

peak shifts 394–5, 601<br />

see also valley crossing<br />

adaptive prediction 279<br />

adaptive radiation 500, 502, 644–6<br />

Anolis 502<br />

Cambrian explosion 645<br />

divergence principle 645–6<br />

mammals 669, 674<br />

adaptive topography 214–16, 282–3, 682<br />

additive effect 229–30<br />

additive variance 232, 235–6<br />

adenine (A) 25<br />

Afrikaner population of South Africa 141–2<br />

Agrostis tenuis (grass) 369–70, 374<br />

AIDS 45, 75<br />

air pollution, industrial melanism 112, 113,<br />

114<br />

alcohol dehydrogenase 83, 84, 624<br />

alleles 180<br />

algae, blue-green 607–8<br />

alkaloids 616<br />

alleles 33, 682<br />

dominant 105<br />

epistatic interactions 231<br />

fixation 143<br />

frequency 138–40<br />

Hardy–Weinberg theorem 101<br />

neutral 143<br />

rare 141<br />

recessive 105<br />

allometry 279–80, 682<br />

allopatric speciation 382–3, 411, 682<br />

divergence 489<br />

hedgehogs 499<br />

lizards 503n<br />

phylogenies 413<br />

population divergence 383–4, 385, 386–9<br />

punctuated equilibrium theory 599–602<br />

allopatry 366, 682<br />

alternative splicing 24, 559<br />

altruism 298–9, Plate 6<br />

group selection 302<br />

scrub jays 299–301<br />

Alvarez, W. 651–2, 653, 656<br />

Ambystoma mexicanum (axolotl) 575–6<br />

amino acids 24, 682<br />

change 166, 176, 177, 178, 181<br />

functions 61<br />

non-synonymous changes 176, 177<br />

phylogenetic inference 438<br />

rate of evolution 160–1<br />

sequences 24<br />

states 160<br />

synonymous changes 176, 177<br />

ammonite mass extinction 650, 653<br />

amniotes 434, 542, 682<br />

amphibians 65–6<br />

terrestrial 540–1<br />

Amphioxus (lancelet) 582<br />

analogous similarity 55, 682<br />

ancestral range 505, 507<br />

ancestral similarity 456, 682<br />

ancestral species<br />

island archipelagos 503<br />

see also common ancestor<br />

angiosperms<br />

distribution 495<br />

diversification 622<br />

evolution 539–40, 560

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