Evolution What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters

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Janis, Christine, 323
Jarvik, Erik, 238
“Java man,” 359, 368
jawless fish, 216–221
jaws, 221–226
Jefferson, Thomas, 96, 381
“Jehovah,” 30
Jesuits, 20
Jews, 14
Jimmy Neutron, 3
Joggins, Nova Scotia, 248–249
Johanson, Don, 357, 363
Johnson, Philip, 10–12, 37–39, 43–44
Jones, Chuck, 312
Jones, Jim, 7, 382
Jones, John E. III, 45–46, 377
Joshua, 32, 35
Journal of the Biological Society
of Washington, 38, 48
Judaeo-Christian God, 38
Judah, 30
junk DNA, 104–105
Juramaia, 305
Jurassic, 61
Jurassic Park, 265–266, 276, 277
Jurassic World, 265
“jury-rigged” design, 38–39, 114–115, 233


Kaang, 28
Kansas State Board of Education, 45
Kant, Immanuel, 96
Kay, Marshall, 22, 24
Kayenta Formation, 64
Kelley, Patricia, xvii
Kennedy, John F., 5
Kenya National Museum, Nairobi, 360
Kenyapithecus, 363
Kepler, Johannes, 42
King James version, 30
kingdom, 131
Kingsley, Charles, 9
Kirkland, Jim, 270–271
Kitcher, Philip, 92
Kitzmiller case, 45–46
Klasies Mouth Cave, South Africa, 369
Knight, Charles R., 266
Knoll, Andrew, 153, 156, 177, 180
Knox College, 50
Komodo dragons, 256
Kool-Aid, 7
Kowalewsky, Vladimir, 325
Krebs cycle, 168
Kuban, Glen, 265


ladder of creation, 132
Lafayette, Indiana, 50
Lake Turkana, Kenya, 363


Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de, xix, 59,
98, 96–98, 103
Lamarckian inheritance, 103
Lamech, 84
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, 189
lamprey, 216–218
Lampsilis, 38–39, 116
lancelet, 213–219
land, invasion of by tetrapods, 232–235
Laplace, Pierre, 12
Laplander, 368
Lapworthella, 176
larynx, 40–41
Latimeria, 228–232
Laurasiatheria, 308–309
Lavoisier, 96
“layer cake” geology, 70–74
Lazarus, David, 143, 189–192
Leakey, Louis, 365–366
Leakey, Mary, 365–367
Leakey, Richard, 385
Lederman, Leon, 382
leglessness, 258
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 96
Leisey shell bed, 57
lemurs, 360–362
Lepidosauria, 249–260
Lepidosiren, 230–231
Lepospondyls, 226–242, 247, 258
Leptophoca, 317
Lesothosaurus, 271
Leviathan, 30
Lewin, Roger, 357
Lewis overthrust, 68
Lewontin, Richard, 102–104
Liaoning beds, 282–283, 299, 311
Limnoscelis, 247–248
Limulus, 201
lineal ancestor, 89
Linnaeus, 95, 113, 130
Linnean Society, 99
Liomesaspis, 201–202
lipid bilayer, 158–159
lipids, 158–160
Lissamphibia, 227
Lithocyclia, 192–193
“little shellies,” 175–177, 180
“Lizzy the lizard,” 248
llamas, 339
lobe-finned fish, 223–225
lobsters, 56
Loch Ness monster (“Nessie”), 14–15
Locke, John, 96
Loma Linda University, 388–389
Lord Kelvin, 81
lorises, 360–362
Loyola, Ignatius, 20
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