422 Index
Mousterian culture, 368
“Mrs. Ples,” 366
Mt. Ararat, 95, 119
Mt. Kilauea, 70
Muav Limestone, 73
mudcracks, 70–74
mudskipper, 232–233
mummies, 59
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, 143, 276
mustelids, 313–314
Myllokunmingia, 217–218
myomeres, 210–215
myths, 27–30
Najash, 258
Nanchangosaurus, 252–253
Napoleon Bonaparte, 12, 59
“Nariokotome boy,” 365, 367
National Center for Science Education (NCSE), 50
National Geographic, 286
National Museums of Kenya, 385
natural groups, 139–140
Natural History Museum, London, 144
natural selection, 6, 98–101
“natural theology,” 37–38
naturalism, 10–12
Navajo, 28
Navajo Formation, 64
Nazi, 15
Neanderthal man, 358, 359, 368–370
“Nebraska Man,” 357–358
Nebuchadnezzar, 31
Nelson, Gary, 142, 143
Nelson, Paul, 43
Nemakit-Daldynian Stage, 175–177, 180
Nemesis, 18
neo-Darwinism, 100–103
neo-Lamarckianism, 101
Neoceratodus, 230–231
Neopilina, 202–203
neoteny, 108–109, 211, 372
Neotherium, 318–320
neutralism, 102–106
Neville, T. George, 199
“New Age,” 18
“New Guinea man,” 358
New World monkeys, 360–362, 370
Newton, Isaac, 12, 33, 42, 96, 97, 100
Nisir, 30
Noachian Deluge, 62–66, 69–74
Noah, 28
Noah’s ark, 20, 78–80, 95, 119, 199
Nobiliasaphus, 197–198
nodes, 138–139
nodosaurs, 275
Norell, Mark, 136
“normalcy,” 34
North Pole, Australia, 153
nothosaurs, 254–255
notochord, 209–215
Novacek, Mike, 149, 306
nuclear DNA, 166
numerical taxonomy, 137
Numidotherium, 348–351
“Nutcracker man,” 365–366
Nye, Bill, 7
Nyx, 27Odobenus, 318–320
Odontochelys, 249–250
Of Pandas and People, 46, 347
Ogyginus, 197–198
Ogygiocarella, 197–198
oil droplet, 158–159
Okapi, 340–342
Old World monkeys, 360–362, 370
oldest earth rocks, 81
oldest meteorite, 82
oldest minerals on earth, 155
oldest moon rock, 82
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, 366
Olduwan culture, 367
Ommatartus, 192–193
Omphalos hypothesis, 9, 84, 112, 113, 166
On the Origin of Species, 33, 99–103, 355, 359, 396
“one gene, one protein” dogma, 104
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny,” 116
ontological (metaphysical) Naturalism, 11
Onychophora, 203–204
Opabinia, 177–178
Oparin, A. I., 158, 156
Ophiacodon, 290, 292
Ophthalmosaurus, 253
order, 131
orders of mammals, relationships
of, 307–308
Organ Rock Shale, 76
organelles, 164–166
Orgel, Leslie, 163
origin of Bible, 30–33
Ornithischia, 271–275
Orohippus, 326
Orrorin, 363
orthogenesis, 335
Orwell, George, 378
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 335, 357
osteichthyans, 223–225
Ostrom, John, 277
overthrusts, 68
Overton, William, 34, dsf37
Oviraptor, 278
Owen, Richard, 60, 276
Oxford University, 23–24
oxymoron, 48