Index 423“P document” (Priestly Document), 31–32
pachycephalosaurs, 275
pachyostotic ribs, 351
Pachypleurosaurus, 255
Pachyrhachis, 258
paddlefish, 223–224
Pakicetus, 343–344
Palaeobranchiostoma, 216
Palaeomastodon, 348–351
palaeoniscoids, 223–224
Palaeosyops, 334–335
Paley, William, 38
Paluxy River tracks, 265
Pan paniscus, 370
Pan troglodytes, 370
panda’s thumb, 39–40, 116
Panderichthys, 234–236
Pandora, 28
panselectionism, 101–102, 104
“Pantotheria,” 302
Pappochelys, 249
Paraceratherium, 332
Paranthropus, 364, 366
Paris Basin, 59
Pascal, Blaise, 96
Patagopteryx, 286
Patterson, Colin, 142, 144
Pauling, Linus, 149
PCR (polymerase chain reaction), 145
Pearson, Paul, 183–184
peccaries, 358
“Peking Man,” 358, 367
Pelomyxa, 166
Pelosi, Alexandra, 384
“pelycosaurs,” 291–295
Pence, Mike, 389
penicillin, 126
Pentateuch, 30
“People’s Temple,” 7
peppered moth, 125
periodic extinction model, 18–19
peripheral isolates, 87
Perissodactyla, 324, 328–335
periwinkles, 125
persecuted genius, 20
Pew survey, 390–393
Pezosiren portelli, 351–353
Ph.D., 16–17
pharyngeal pouches, 118–119
pharynx, 210–212
phenacodontids, 328, 329
Phenacolophus, 351
phenotype, 101
Philo, 38
Philosophie Zoologique, 96
Phiomia, 348–351
phonetics, 137
Phosphatherium, 324, 348–351
phylogenetic classification, 139
phylogenetic systematics, 137
phylogeny, 129
phylum, 131
phytosaurs, 261
pigeon breeding, 98
pigs, 337
Pikaia, 215–216, 219
Pilbeam, David, 145
pillow lavas, 70
Piltdown man, 357–358, 366
pinnipeds, 317–320
Pistosaurus, 255
Pithanotaria, 317
“Pithecanthropus erectus,” 359
placebo, 16
placental mammals, 149
placoderms, 221
Planet of the Apes, 385–386
“Planet of the Scum,” 171–173
Planet X, 18
plastron, 249–250
plate tectonics, 22, 391–392
Plateosaurus, 267–268
Platyrrhini, 362
plesiosaurs, 15, 251–256
Pliolophus, 326
pliosaurs, 254–256
Poebrodon, 339
Poebrotherium, 339
Poindexter, 3
poles, 14
polio, 7
polymers, 158–159
Polypterus, 233
Pongidae, 141
Pontolis, 318–320
Pontophoca, 317
poor adaptation, 40
Pope John Paul II, xv
Pope, Alexander, 133–134
Popper, Karl, 4, 142
population genetics, 101
post-hoc fallacy, 18
potassium-argon dating, 82
Praemurica, 189
Praepusa, 317
Prezewalkski’s horse, 326
Price, George Macready, 62–64
priestly code, 31
primates, 131, 310, 360
“primordial soup,” 156
probability argument, 18, 51–52, 167–168
“problem of pain,” 42
Proboscidea, 347–353
Procamelus, 339