Evolution What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters

426 Index

systematics, 129–130
Systematics and the Origin of Species, 101
Systematics Discussion Group, 144
“systemic mutation,” 107–108
Systemodon, 326

Taibbi, Matt, 379–380
Takracetus, 344–345
Taliban, 386
Tapeats Sandstone, 73
taphonomy, 54–56
tapirs, 332–334
Tarot, 14
“Taung Child,” 134, 359, 366
taxonomy, 129–132
“teach the controversy,” 382–383
teeth, mammal, 306–307
telemarketers, 16
Teleoceras, 332
Teleosts, 223–225, 251
Temnospondyls, 247, 226–242
template, molecular, 159–161
Temple Butte Limestone, 73
Tempo and Mode in Evolution, 101
temporal opening, 291
temporalis muscles, 297–298
Terrestrisuchus, 259–260
Tertullian, 20
Tethytheria, 351
Tetrapoda, 139
Tetrapodophis, 258
tetrapods, 226–242
Teyler Museum, Netherlands, 277
“Thecodonts,” 276
theodicy, 42
theory, 4–5
“therapsids,” 293
therizinosaurs, 270–271
“third chimpanzee,” 370–374
Third Earl of Gonister, 372–373
Thrinaxodon, 290, 293, 295
thunderbird, 27
Tiamat, 30
Tiktaalik, 236–241
Time Magazine, 45
titanotheres, 334–336
Titanotylopus, 340
Togocyamus, 199–200
Tommotian Stage, 175–177, 180
Topsell, Edward, 347
tortoises, 67–68
“Toumai,” 363
transitional forms, 89, 380
“tree of life,” 1
“trees down” hypothesis, 276–278
trees in lava in Australia, 83
Triadobatrachus, 242

tribalism, 379

Triceratops, 271–275

Trigonias, 332

trilobites, 175, 177–179, 197–198

trithelodonts, 295–297

tritylodonts, 295–297

trivial name, 130

Trojans, 390

Trump, Donald J., 389

Tsukiyumi, 28

Tugen Hills, Kenya, 363

tunicates, 211–215

turtles, 249–250

Twain, Mark, 172–173

Tyler, Stanley, 172

Tyrannosaurus rex, 267, 284

UFOs, 14

“unexplained is not inexplicable,” 19

ungulate, 308, 310, 322–353

Unification Church, 44

uniformitarianism, 12

University of Edinburgh, 98

University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 50

uranium-lead dating, 82

Uranus, 27

Urey, Harold, 156

Ussher, Archbishop, 84

Utatsusaurus, 252–253

Utnapishtim, 28, 30

Valenictus, 318–320

Van de Graaff generator, 3

Van Valen, Leigh, 343

Velociraptor, 270, 277–279

velvet worms, 203–204

“Vendozoa,” 173

Ventastega, 234–236

verify, 4

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 99

vestigial organs, 40, 116–117

Vicuñas, 339

Vincelestes, 303

viruses, 125–126

Voltaire, 32, 96

Volutacorbis, 197

Von Baer, Karl Ernst, 116–118

Vorona, 286

Wächtershäuser, Gunter, 161

Waddington, Conrad, 103

walking catfish, 232–233

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 99

walruses, 317–320

warm little pond,” 156, 162

Warrawoona Group, 153

Wasatch Formation, 64