Self And The Phenomenon Of Life: A Biologist Examines Life From Molecules To Humanity

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major histocompatibility complex

(MHC), 119–121

Margenau, H., 330n

Margulis, L., 293n

materialism, eliminative, 303

Mayr, E., 77n

meaning, 325, 326f

Medawar, P.B., 110, 121

medulla, 141, 142f, 340

mega-self, 258

Mele, A.R., 254n

memory, associative, 213t, 214, 217,

221, 224

memory, declarative, 211, 213t

memory, episodic, 211, 213t

memory, explicit, 211, 213t

memory, implicit, 211, 213t

memory, invertebrates, 219–224

memory, non-associative, 211, 213t,

214, 217, 222, 224

memory, procedural, 213t, 219

memory, semantic, 211, 213t

memory, vertebrates, 224–229

meteorites, in origin of life, 35t

microglia, 135

midbrain, 141, 142f, 143, 340

Mill, J.S., 281

Miller, S.L., 37, 56

Milner, B., 232n

mind, theory of, 164

mirror neurons, 272, 273, 345

mirror test, 164, 165

molecular evolution, 61

monoamine oxidase, 194

Monod, J., 58

montmorillonite, 40, 48

mood, what is, 181

moral code, foundations of, 280–282

morality, definition of, 282, 283

Morowitz, H.J., 49

Morris water maze, 218, 348

Moser, E.I., 234n

Moser, M.B., 234n

motivation center, 189f, 193, 194f, 219

motivation versus reward, 190

Murchison meteorite, 35

mutualism, 259

mycorrhizae, 101–103

Nagel, T., 303

Nanjing massacre, 289

Nanking, rape of, 289, 291

neurogenesis, adult, and memory, 228

neurogenesis, adult, in dentate

gyrus, 228

neuromodulators, 135, 160n

neuronal workspace model, 172

neurons, 128–135

neurotransmitters, 134, 135, 337f

neutral monism, 314n

neutrophils, 113–115, 117, 274

Newton, I., 231, 322, 318

nitric oxide, 134, 337f

NMDA receptor, 225, 226f

noradrenaline (see norepinephrine)

norepinephrine, 134t, 170t, 185f,

194f, 337f

nucleobases, 19, 20, 21f

nucleoside, 19, 20, 21f

nucleotide, 19, 20, 21f

nucleus accumbens, 188, 189f, 339

nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS),

193, 340

O’Keefe, J., 225

occipital lobe, 142f, 339

Olds, J., 186,188

oligodendroglia, 135

ontology, 309, 314n

orbitofrontal cortex, 191

orexin, 170, 174, 176

Orgel, L.E., 58

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