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Index
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acid rain, 84, 85, 87
acorns, 100
Acuña, José Luis, 180
Aeschylus, 156
Africa, 33–36
disease in, 89–91, 97–98, 105
edge of extinction in, 243–44
evolution in, 199
migration from, 262
populations in, 65, 66
African Rift Valley, 50
agriculture, 71, 72–76, 239, 262
cotton, 82–85
and evolution, 77–80, 93
fertilizers, 72–74, 83, 84–85
land devoted to, 88
and meat, 86–87, 103
and population growth, 75, 76
rooftop, 86
and soil, see soil
tobacco, 83
AIDS, 91, 104, 105
Alaska Whale Foundation, 169
Aleutian Islands, 184–87
algae, and coral reefs, 174
algae blooms, 84
alkaline vents, 28
Alpha Centauri B, 235
Alvan Clark & Sons, 219
Alvarez, Luis Walter, 16
Alvarez, Walter, 16
Alvin (submersible), 27, 28
Amazon, black earth in, 80–82
Amchitka Island, 185–87
American Indians, 75, 95, 96, 98
Amiskwia, 32
ammonia, 84, 87
Amundsen, Roald, 40
Amundson, Ronald, 87
Anderson, Roland C., 195
Andes Mountains, 1–5, 43–44
animals:
breath-holding, 121, 122–24
confined feeding of, 103
domestication of, 75, 95, 213, 238
poaching, 211
Anomalocaris, 32
Antarctica, 171–72, 175, 247
antelopes, pronghorn, 208
Anthropocene age, 263
antibiotic resistance, 102–6
ants, leaf-cutting, 188
Apollo space program, 222
aquaculture, 115
Archer, Steve, 47
Arctic:
ice melt in, 247, 248
oil reserves in, 248
artificial intelligence (AI), 259, 260–61
Asáninka Indians, 3
Asia, population growth in, 65–66
Atacama Desert, 1
Atlantic Ocean, formation of, 159
Atlantis (research vessel), 28
atlatl (spear thrower), 236–37
aurochs, 212
Australia, loss of large animals in, 199
Australian Marine Mammal Research Centre, 169
Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy), 56
Baja California, 107–9, 114, 189
Balisi, Mairin, 214
Barnett, Allan, 177
Barnosky, Anthony, 7, 88, 151, 250
Barrat, James, 260–61
Battle of Waterloo, 73
Bawa, Kamaljit, 134
Beale, Lt. Edward, 207
bears, short-faced, 214–15
Beebe, William, 118
beehives, 86
Belnap, Jayne, 144
Bennett, Liz, 211
Bergmann, Carl, 204
Bergmann’s rule, 203–4
Bernhardt, Emily S., 24–25
Big Bang, 251
bighorn sheep, 48
Bikini Atoll, 77
biochar (terra preta), 80–82
biodiversity, 2–3, 7, 92
declining, 2, 245
present crisis of, 22–23, 129
and soil experiments, 73
species interaction, 133–34
biosphere, 271
Biosphere 2 (Mars One), 230–34
biosphere people, 134–35
black smokers, 27
Blanford, William and Henry, 40
blue-green algae, 29
bonobos, 61–62
boojum trees, 107
Borlaug, Norman, 78
Boston, watershed program of, 132
Bostrom, Nick, 258–60
Bowers, Henry, 41
Bowring, Sam, 18, 19, 21, 265
Boyden, Ed, 258
Boyle, Brad, 44
brachiopods, 14
brain, uploading, 258–63
Brainy Bonnie (orangutan), 60–61
Brophy, James, 34
Brown, Caitlin, 214
Brusatte, Stephen, 244
bryozoans, 14
Burgess, George, 190, 191
Burgess Shale, 30–32
Burmese pythons, 45–46
Calambokidis, John, 169
California condor, 7
California Current, 121
Cambrian explosion, 29, 31–33
Cambrian period, 30
camels, in North America, 207, 210
Camp Pendleton, 163
Canidae family, 204–5, 238
Capitan Reef, Texas, 11–14, 17, 18, 32
carbon, 26, 82, 85, 247
Carroll, Scott, 213
Carson, Rachel, 125, 176
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, 24–25, 28, 271
cats, saber-and scimitar-toothed, 201, 202, 214, 216
CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), 228
Chan, Margaret, 106
cheetahs, rewilding, 207–8, 209, 210
Chernobyl exclusion zone, 165–66
Chicxulub crater, Mexico, 16–17, 271
Chihuahuan Desert, 206
China:
agriculture in, 75, 78, 83
disease in, 92
mining for rare earth metals, 178
and the perfect soldier, 257
Permian-Triassic boundary line in, 18–19
population growth in, 65, 66
traditional medicine in, 211
Choate, Dave, 163<
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Civil War, US, 269
Claraia (scallop), 159, 181
climate change:
abrupt, 245–46
and carbon release, 247
computer models of, 245–46
effect on species, 3, 48–49, 113
and melting ice, 248–50
cloning, 257
Clovis people, 200, 201, 205
CO2, 19, 21, 22, 25, 64, 87, 169, 172, 173
Cochran, Gregory, 237, 238, 239, 252–53, 254–55
Coleman, Kevin, 76
Colnett, James, 116
Colorado River, 145–47, 148–49
Columbus, Christopher, 95
Conde, Dalia Amor, 136–40
Conservation International, 1, 2, 43–44
continental drift, 37, 39, 40, 41–42, 159
Coolidge, Calvin, 142
coral reefs, 14, 173, 174
Cortés, Hernan, 95
cotton, 82–85
cougars, 201
Courtillot, Vincent, 271
Cretaceous extinction:
asteroid as cause of, 6, 16–17, 20, 73, 184, 244
evidence of, 16–17, 271
oxygen deprivation in, 113
recovery from, 152
crinoids, 13–14
crocodiles, 53–54, 55, 161–62, 174
Crutzen, Paul J., 263
Cucapá Indians, 149
cuneiform writing, 75
Curiosity rover, 221
cuttlefish, 194–95
cyanobacteria, 29
Darwin, Charles, 15, 97
and Galápagos, 21, 27, 37–38, 179
and HMS Beagle, 37–39
On the Origin of Species, 39, 56, 238
theory of evolution, 27, 32–33
Dawkins, Richard, 244
DDT, 77, 209
Death Valley National Park, 203–4
Deccan Traps, India, 6, 244, 271
deep time, 265
deer, 209, 212
Defoe, Daniel, 269
Dellwo, Lisa, 24
Denisovans, 252
Denton, William, 214
Despommier, Dickson, The Vertical Farm, 86
Devonian extinction, global cooling/warming cycles as cause of, 6
Diamond, Jared:
Collapse, 88
The Third Chimpanzee, 62, 200
dinosaurs:
appearance of, 22, 161
expansion of, 162
extinction of, 16–17, 20, 244, 267
presence of, 202
dioxin, 77
disease, 75, 76, 89–106
and critical mass, 93–95
funding for cures, 100–101
outbreaks of, 91–93
resistance to, 98, 103