424 Index
Prodigal Son, 33
Prohibition, 34
prokaryote, 153
Proneotherium, 318–320
pronghorns, 337
proof, 4
Propliopithecus, 362
prosauropods, 267–268
“prosimians,” 360–362, 370
Prosthennops, 358
Protarchaeropteryx, 283
protein sequences, 308
proteinoid, 158
protistans, 184
Protoceratops, 271–275, 278
Protoclepsydrops, 291
protolabines, 340
Protopterus, 230–231
Protorohippus, 326
Protosuchus, 259–261
Prototaria, 318
Protungulatum, 310, 324
Protylopus, 339
Pruitt, Mike, 389
Pseudailurus, 312–316
pseudoscience, 13–15
Psittacosaurus, 271–275, 302
“psychic,” 14–15, 379
pterobranchs, 211–215
Pterocanium, 189–192
Pterodactyl, 115, 276
Ptilodus, 303
punctuated equilibrium, 85–88
Purdue University, 50
Purgatorius, 310, 360–362
purple nonsulfur bacteria, 164–166
pygidium, 198
pygostyle, 280–283, 285
pyramids, 344
pyrite, 161
Qafzeh Cave, Israel, 368
quadrate, 299
quadrate/articular joint, 298–300
“quote mining,” 89, 92, 136, 379
rabbits, 308
raccoons, 313–314
Radinskya, 324, 328, 329
radiolarian, 143, 185–186, 189–192
radiometric dating, 81–83
Rahonavis, 284–287
Railroad Quarry A, 326
Ramapithecus, 145–146
“random chance,” 51
ratites, 119–121
rattlesnakes, 125
Raulston, John T., 35
Raup, David, 18
Rawnsley Quartzite, 173
ray-finned fish, 223–225
Ray, Clayton, 351
Raymond, Anne, xvii
Reagan, Ronald, 6
recurrent laryngeal nerve, 40–41
reduction of cognitive dissonance, 377
reductionism, 100–102
Redwall Limestone, 73
Reformation, Protestant, 7
regulatory genes, 106–108, 371–372
“religiously unaffiliated,” 393
Repenomamus, 302
replacement, 55–56
reptiles, 244–261
Retallack, Greg, 175
Rhamphocottus, 234
rhesus monkey, 370
rhinoceroses, 324, 329–332
Rhipidistia, 230–234
ribozymes, 163
RNA, 103, 144, 162–163
“RNA world,” 163
“Roaring Twenties,” 34
Rodentia, 131, 308
Rodhocetus, 345
Romer, Alfred, 310
Roosevelt, Theodore, 34
Rose, Kenneth, 337
Rosenau, Josh, 390–392
Roswell, New Mexico, 5, 14
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 32, 96
rubidium-strontium dating, 82
Russell, Bertrand, 10sacropterygians, 228–235
Sagan, Carl, 3, 6, 7, 13, 16, 20, 37, 381–382, 386, 396
Sahelanthropus, 363, 364
Saito, Tsunemasa, 189
salamanders, 226–227, 241–242
Saltoposuchus, 260
Samotherium, 342
San Diego Natural History Museum, 320
sand dollars, 199–200
Santiago ship, 79
Sarcopterygii, 131
Sarfati, Jonathan, 17, 171, 280, 286, 347, 301, 328
Sarich, Vincent, 144–146, 370
Sasquatch, 15
saurischians, 267
scaffold, molecular, 159–161
scala naturae, 96, 132
scallops, 193–194
Scelidosaurus, 275
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 20