Geological Survey, U.S., 312
Geological time, 266
Gibbon ape, 319
Gibbs, Frederick, 322
Glaciers, 310–14
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 296
Gorillas, 368
Grant, Robert, 330
Grasses, 313, 319
Great Depression, 271
Greece, ancient, 246–47, 250, 253, 255, 285, 370, 397
Gulls, 372–73
Haldane, John Burdon, 242
Halley’s comet, 293
Hawaii, 250, 252
Hawkesworth, John, 252
Henslow, John, 251, 329
Heraclitus, 242
Hertz, Heinrich, 269
Hibernation, 355
Hieroglyphs, 282–83, 342
Himalaya Mountains, 319, 349
Hinduism, 281
Homer: Odyssey, 243–58
Hominids, 243, 312, 354, 356, 366, 368; brains of, 319–20, 370; at end of ice age, 318–22
Homo sapiens, 250, 312–13, 394–95, 400; bipedalism of, 318–19; brain of, 266–67, 277–78, 314, 321–22, 353, 370; burial of the dead, 261, 314, 397; evolution of, 266–67, 340; migrations of, 316; speech of, 321, 354, 370–71; tools of, 243, 261, 270, 298, 321, 339
Hopis, 272
Humboldt Current, 343
Hunter, John, 264–65
Hutton, James, 263–64
Huxley, Thomas H., 333, 369
Ice age, 279, 307, 309–12, 314, 322, 395; and cave paintings, 244, 341, 397; effect in Africa, 316–18; impact on mammals, 313, 322
India, 319
Industrialization, 326
Instinct, 370
Iroquois, 380
Ishi, 366
Islands, 351–56, 358
Italy, 250, 253, 396
Ithaca, 245, 251, 253, 255–56
Jackrabbits, 323–24
Java man, 366
Jesus, 295, 365
Job, 275, 280, 387
Kansas, 316, 327
Kazantzakis, Nikos, 246, 256
King, James, 252
King, Philip, 312
Krishna, 281
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, 330
Language, 321, 354, 370–71
Lapland, 317
Lascaux cave paintings, 244
Lemaître, Georges, 254
Lemurs, 371
Lhuillier, Ruz, 283
Lizards, 388–90
London, England, 251–52, 331
Lungfish, 354
Lyell, Charles, 330
Macusi people, 384
Madagascar, 318, 352
Malthus, Thomas, 336
Mammals, 313, 316, 348, 356
Mammoths, 277, 313, 315, 322, 326, 392
Massingham, H. J., 259, 262
Mastodons, 316
Mayans, 244–45, 283
McGlashan, Alan, 361
Mediterranean Sea, 244, 247, 253, 396–97
Melville, Herman, 343; Moby-Dick, 248, 252
Microscope, 261
Middle Ages, 265
Migrations, human, 316
Miocene epoch, 319
Moe, Henry Allen, 241
Mohegans, 284
Montaigne, Michel de, 365–66
Moon, 243
Morning Chronicle (London), 252
Moses, 263
Mount Monadnock, 310
Muir, John, 348
Mushrooms, 351–52
Mutation, 265–67, 349, 371
Native Americans, Blackfoot, 320; Eskimos, 325, 339–41; Hopis, 272; Iroquois, 380; Mayans, 244–45, 283; Mohegans, 284; Pequots, 284; of Tierra del Fuego, 329, 336
Natural selection, 333, 350, 369–71
Neanderthals, 282, 368, 391, 393–94, 397, 400
Nebraska, 390
Neolithic period, 267, 371
New Jersey, 316
Newton, Isaac, 254, 263–65, 332, 336
New York City, 316
North America, 279, 316, 322
Nuclear energy, 379
Octopuses, 291
Odysseus, 243–58, 331
Orangutans, 319
Orb spider, 275–80
Owls, 312
Oxygen, 266, 277, 354
Oz, 327–28, 336–37, 340
Pacific Ocean, 243, 247–48, 251
Palenque, 283
Paleocene epoch, 340
Paleolithic period, 267, 371
Paleozoic era, 314
Paley, William, 264
Palomar Observatory, 278, 361
Pascoli, Giovanni, 253, 256–57
Peking man, 366, 368
Pequots, 284
Permian period, 311–13
Phagocytes, 279
Philosophes, 245
Photosynthesis, 266, 272, 277
Pithecanthropus, 320, 368
Planets, 263, 350
Plato, 255, 363
Pleistocene epoch, 309, 311–13, 316–20
Pliocene epoch, 317, 319
Plotinus, 257
Pluto, 350
Pluvials, 316
Polynesia, 248
Pompeii, 244
Primates, 243–45, 318–20
Progress, 265, 299, 336
Propithecus, 371
Pterodactyls, 282
Ptolemy, 248
Ramsay, A. C., 312
Rasmussen, Knud, 341
Rembrandt van Rijn, Harmensz, 244
Renaissance, 269, 349
Reptiles, 282, 297, 348, 352, 356, 388–90
Resolution, H.M.S., 250–51
Rhinoceroses, 392, 395
Rocky Mountains, 391
Rome, ancient, 270–71
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 366
Saber-toothed cat, 277, 319, 367
Santayana, George, 325, 376
Science, 269–70, 298; Bacon on, 261; modern, 244, 256, 267, 344, 378
Scientific method, 398
Scott, Robert F., 250
Seashells, 342
Seccho, 289
Shakespeare, William, 269; The Tempest, 343, 356, 358–59, 370
Shensi skull, 320
Sillman, Leonard, 320
Simpson, George Gaylord, 313
Siwalik Hills, 319
Snowflakes, 309
Snowy owl, 312
Society, 267, 368, 371
South America, 316
South Trinidad Island, 354
Space exploration, 243–44, 362
Spain, 250
Specialization, biological, 278
Species, 282, 299–300
Speck, Frank G., 284
Sperm whale, 248
Spiders, 275–80
Starfish, 290–92, 304
Stars, 297
Stone age, 267, 371, 428
Strait of Magellan, 329
Struggle for existence, 265, 296, 300, 302, 305, 338, 351
Swanscombe skull, 321–22
Tahiti, 248
Technology, 244, 261, 267, 269–70, 378
Telegraph, 333
Telescope, 261
Tennyson, Alfred, 256
Terns, 370–71
Tertiary period, 312, 317–19, 392
Thompson, D’Arcy, 270
Thoreau, Henry David, 314, 325, 327–29, 355, 386; and glaciation, 310; journals, 325, 337–38; and nature, 309, 326, 336–42; Walden, 326, 340
Tierra del Fuego, 329, 336
Tollund man, 253
Tools, 243, 261, 270, 298, 321, 339
Tornados, 294–95
Trojan War, 245, 247
Turtles, 352
2001: A Space Odyssey, 244
Uniformitarianism, 265
Universe, expanding, 355
Valparaiso, Chile, 326
Variation, 333, 371
Venezuela, 388
Victorian age, 273, 299, 318, 330, 336, 339, 373
Vikings, 340–41
Wagner, Moritz, 350
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 265, 313, 318
Whales, 248, 343
Whately, Richard, 429, 432
White, Gilbert, 366
Wilberforce, Samuel, 333
Wilderness, 269
William of Ockham, 261
Williams, Charles, 382
Wilson, John, 358–59
Wolf (dog), 240, 307–9
Xenophon, 307
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