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lungfish 540<br />

evolutionary rate 606–8<br />

tail shape 574<br />

taxonomic rate of evolution 609, 610<br />

Lycaon pictus (African hunting dog) 50<br />

Lyell, Charles 8, 10, 658<br />

lysozyme gene 186–7<br />

McDonald–Kreitman test 184–5<br />

MacFadden, B.J. 591, 592, 593<br />

macroevolution 550–2, 686<br />

coevolution 640<br />

controlling factors 665–6<br />

ecological niche persistence 664<br />

escalation 636<br />

regimes 655, 656<br />

macromutations 14, 15, 17, 686<br />

magnetic field of Earth 529<br />

magnetic time zones 529<br />

maize (corn) 238–9<br />

Makai, Terumi 321<br />

malaria 115<br />

drug resistance genes 212, 213<br />

global incidence 124–5<br />

incidence 124–5<br />

Malthus, Thomas Robert 10<br />

mammals 65–6<br />

amniotic egg 542<br />

brain size 516<br />

coevolution with grasses 540, 593n<br />

earliest 673<br />

eutherian 545, 672, 673, 684<br />

evolution from reptiles 542, 543,<br />

544–5<br />

evolutionary rate 609<br />

fossil record 672–4<br />

groups 545<br />

independent replacement of dinosaurs<br />

671–4<br />

intermediates in fossil record 55<br />

jaw 544, 545<br />

lactation 265<br />

molecular clock 672<br />

molecular differences 672–4<br />

North American 512–13<br />

origin 551<br />

placental 429–30<br />

radiation 669, 674<br />

saber-toothed 429–30, 504–5, 513<br />

South American 512–13<br />

species relatedness 504–5<br />

survivorship curve for carnivores 610<br />

teeth 544<br />

X/Y sex chromosome 565–7<br />

see also marsupial mammals<br />

mark–recapture experiments, fitness<br />

estimation 111–12, 119–20<br />

marsupial mammals<br />

adaptive radiation 644<br />

area cladogram 510–11<br />

convergence with placental 429–30<br />

South American 513<br />

mass extinctions 648–9, 650, 651<br />

contributory factors 653–5<br />

Cretaceous–Tertiary (KT) boundary 651–3<br />

sedimentary record quality 658, 659–60<br />

species selection 666–8<br />

The Material Basis of <strong>Evolution</strong> (Goldschmidt)<br />

17<br />

mating<br />

assortative 400, 401, 402, 403, 682<br />

disassortative 126–7<br />

frequency 98–9<br />

fruitflies 336<br />

non-random 206<br />

preference 330<br />

females with handicapped males 331–2<br />

open-ended for females 332–3<br />

sexual selection 358<br />

random 102, 105, 687<br />

systems and sexual dimorphism 271–2<br />

mating rule 97–8<br />

Maupertuis, Pierre 7<br />

Mauritius, Huntington’s disease 142<br />

maximum likelihood principle 447–8, 449<br />

Mayr, Ernst 17, 140<br />

biological species concept 352<br />

geographic variation 359–60<br />

“population thinking” 363, 364<br />

“typological thinking” 363, 364<br />

mean character distance (MCD) 479<br />

Mediterranean ecosystems 503–4<br />

Megazostrodon (mammalian fossil) 542, 543<br />

meiosis 33, 37, 533, 686<br />

disruption 168<br />

recombination 307<br />

meiotic drive 294<br />

melanism 16<br />

industrial 108–14<br />

Mendel, Gregor 13, 35<br />

Mendelian inheritance 1, 13, 14, 37–9, 40<br />

definition 686<br />

natural selection 41<br />

segregation 294<br />

variation 39<br />

Mendelian ratios 34–5, 36, 37<br />

mating 98, 99<br />

Menidia menidia (Atlantic silverside) 79<br />

Merychippus (horse) 591, 593<br />

Mesohippus (horse) 591, 598<br />

Index 743<br />

Mesozoic fauna 649<br />

messenger RNA (mRNA) 25, 686<br />

Metatheria 545<br />

Metazoans 535–6<br />

Metrarabdotus (fossil Bryozoa) 603–4<br />

Michigan corkscrews 532<br />

microallopatric speciation 503n<br />

microbes, land colonization 538<br />

microevolution 686<br />

changes within species 597<br />

controlling factors 665–6<br />

extrapolation to macroevolution 550–2,<br />

666<br />

Microphallus (trematode) 127–8, 326, 327<br />

mid-ocean ridges 531<br />

midge, chironomid 505–6, 508, 512<br />

migration<br />

gene frequency unification 130–1, 132<br />

genetic difference maintenance 132–3<br />

peppered moth 113–14<br />

rate 131<br />

milk feeding 265<br />

milkweed 618–19<br />

mimicry 682, 686<br />

passion flower butterfly 197–8, 218<br />

swallowtail butterflies 195–7, 198, 213, 216,<br />

Plate 3<br />

mitochondria 266, 533, 563, 686<br />

gene transfer to nucleus 563<br />

mitochondrial DNA (mDNA) 26<br />

phylogenetic relations within humans<br />

454–5<br />

mitochondrial gene 563, 564<br />

mitosis 533, 686<br />

mutations 168<br />

Mivart, St George Jackson 13, 263<br />

MN blood group system 102–3, 132<br />

mobbing by birds 299<br />

Modern fauna 675<br />

modern synthesis 15, 686<br />

see also neo-Darwinism<br />

molecular clock 32, 67, 164, 686<br />

Cambrian explosion 535–6<br />

cophylogenetic relations 631–2<br />

cospeciation 631, 632<br />

eukaryote studies 532<br />

generation time effect 167–70<br />

hedgehog species 499<br />

HIV 451<br />

mammals 672<br />

molecular evolution 159, 166<br />

multicellular life 535<br />

nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution<br />

173<br />

molecular cooption 265

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