612 Index
of regression, 312
learning theory, 495
least squares method, 498
Lesliematrix, 519
Lewins, T., 550
Lewis, D., 535
Lewis, E. B., 275
Lewontin, R. C., 117–119, 185–187,
361, 459, 463, 465–467, 473,
569
life, 595
likelihood, 342, 344, 345
lineage, 464, 468, 469, 471–476
linkage 52
linkage disequilibrium, 289
linkage-maps, 266
Linnaean hierarchy, 416–425
Livingstone, F. B., 463
Lloyd, E., 495
Locke, J., 23
locus, 519, 510
logical empiricism, 486, 487, 490, 491,
503
logistic equation, 518
logical positivism, 486
logicism, 501
logistic equation, 517
Lorenz, K., 370
Lush, J. L., 103
Lyell, C., 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 20
L’s paradigm, 4
L’s theory of climate, 11
M ̈uller, F., 443
Mackintosh, J., 203
macromutations, 289
mad cow disease, 600
Mahner, M., 378
maize (Zea mays), 250
Malay Archipelago, 10
Malthus, T. R., 19, 32
Malthusian, 10, 13
Malthusian parameter, 328–329
Mameli, M., 187, 374, 383, 385, 571
mammalian middle ear ossicles, 443
marriage, 234, 235
Maruyama, T., 104
materialism, eliminative, 555
mating
assortative 51
parasexual, 269
mathematics, 2, 487, 505, 508
matrix algebra, 490
Matthen, M., 115, 526, 535
Maturana, H., 376
maximisation principle, 341, 335
Maynard Smith, J., 119, 183, 186,
378, 393, 503
Mayr, E., 54, 71, 74-79, 359, 456,
457, 460, 543, 581, 596
McLaughlin, P., 544
McMullin, E., 485
meaning, 551
meaning-structure, 491
Meckel, J. F., 444
meiotic drive, 512
Mendel’s Laws, 490
Mendel, G., 15, 182, 249, 310, 508
Mendelian factor, 322–324
genes/genetics, 321, 493, 498
Mendelian heredity, 38, 44, 45
Mendelism, 41, 181, 182, 188, 309–
311, 314–317, 319, 323
messenger-RNA, 292
metabolism, inborn errors of, 283
method of least squares, 336
method of maximum likelihood, 343,
345
micelles, 590
microsatellites, 263
Midgley, M., 222, 239
migration, 61, 330
Millikan, R., 530, 549, 562
mind, 597
Misak, C., 488
misrepresentation, 550, 552
mockingbirds, 7