Index 421Lucretius, 95
“Lucy,” 363
Lunar Society, 96
lungfish, 131, 228–232
Lycaenops, 292, 295
Lyell, Charles, 12, 85, 99
Lysenko, Trofim, 389
MacFadden, Bruce, 327–328
macroevolution, 102, 107–110, 198–202
Maddox, Bruno, 378
magnetic field, 84
Maisey, John, 221
Malleus, 299
Malthus, Thomas, 98
“mammal-like reptiles,” 245, 266, 290–301
Mammalia, 131
mammalian radiation, 306–309
mammals, 301–320
mammoths, 347–353
manatees, 348–353
Mancos Shale, 64
Manning, Earl, 149, 307–308, 351
Marduk, 30
Marginocephala, 275
Margulis, Lynn, 164–167
Marsh, Frank, 79
Marsh, O. C., xix, 325
marsupials, 95, 119–121, 302–305
Martin, Larry, 280–281
Marxism, 6
mastodonts, 347–353
mathematics, 18
Matthew, William Diller, 324–326
Matzke, Nick, 46, 382–383
Mayr, Ernst, 80, 101, 129, 185
Mayr, F. X., 277
McKenna, Malcolm, 149, 302, 307–309, 328, 348, 351
McLean vs. Arkansas, 36–37
McLean, William, 36
McMenamin, Mark, 173–175
mechanism of evolution, 113
Megazostrodon, 295–297
Mehta, Hemant, 395
Meilong, 281–282
Mencken, H. L., 19, 34
Mendel, Gregor, 100
Menoceras, 332
Merezhkovsky, K. S., 164
Mesohippus, 326–328
Mesolimulus, 201
mesonychids, 324, 343–347
mesotarsal joint, 278–280
Mesozoic mammals, 301–305
Messel, Germany, 311
metamorphism, 56
Metamynodon, 332
Metaxygnathus, 234–236
methane, 156, 158
methodological naturalism, 10–11
Methuselah, 84
Meyer, Stephen, 47–49, 171–180
miacids, 312–313
Micraster, 195
Microdictyon, 203–204
microevolution, 102, 107–108
microfossils, 182–185
micropaleontology, 58, 182–185
Microraptor, 283
mid-ocean ridges, 161
“millennials,” 393
Miller-Urey experiment, 156–158
Miller, Kenneth, xvii, 167, 381
Miller, Stanley, 156–158
Millerella, 187–188
mimotonids, 310
Minchenella, 324
Minippus, 326
Miohippus, 326–327
miolabines, 340
miracles, 2
“missing link,” 134, 271, 276, 258, 301
mitochondria, 164–166
mitochondrial DNA, 166
Mixosaurus, 253–254
Mobergella, 176
Moenkopi Formation, 64
Moeritherium, 348–351
Mokele-Mbembe, 15
molecular clock, 104–105, 175
molecular phylogeny, 113–114, 144–146
mollusk, ancestral, 176
mollusks, 202–203
Mongolia, 278, 351
“monkey laws,” 34–36
“monkey with the typewriter/word processor,” 51, 167
monophyletic groups, 140
monoplacophorans, 202–203
Monument Valley, 74–76
Moon, Sun-Myung, 44
Morganucodon, 296, 303
Morozovella, 189
Morris, Henry M., 18, 36–39, 44, 62–69, 84–85, 91, 171,
381
Morrison Formation, 64, 302
Morton, Glenn, 381
mosaic evolution, 91, 135
mosasaurs, 251, 256
Moses, 31
mosh pit, 160
mosquito fish, 125
mosquitos, 126
“Mother Earth,” 27
“Mother Nature,” 3