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Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device’s search function to locate particular terms in the text.
Page numbers beginning with 313 refer to notes.
Absolicon, 99
acetylation, 281
acidification, 65, 66, 154
Adam (robot), 221
Adams, Ansel, 25
Adams, Lytle S. “Doc,” 145
adaptive radiation, 29
addiction, 176
additive manufacturing,
see
3D printing
Adélie penguins, 134–35
Aesop, 115
Afghanistan War, 258
African bees, 132
agriculture, 10, 11, 34, 71
big, 154
global warming and, 56
local, 88
as seen from air, 21
urban, 90
see also
mariculture
Alaska, 47–48, 132
algae, 10, 53, 61
Alien
(film), 228
allergies, 301
alligators, 117, 134, 164
alliums, 125
Alps, 132
ALS, 285
alumroots, 80–81
Alzheimer’s, 271, 295
Amazon, 210
Amenhotep II, 257
amino acids, 179–80
Anatomage, 197
animals, in war, 141–48
Antarctic, 22
ice cores in, 9
Antarctica, 237
anteaters, 132
Anthropocene, 9
beginning of, 32–33
antibiotics, 300, 301
ants, 273
Apollo 17
, 17–18
Appalachian Trail, 123–24
Apple, 210
Apps for Apes, 5–6, 28, 204
aquatic plants, 79
Arabian oryx, 132
archaea, 300
Archimedes, 220
architecture, 91–94
Archives of General Psychiatry
, 300–1
Argentina, 72, 123, 132
Argus butterfly, 136
Arizona, 77
Arlanda, 99
Armstrong, Neil, 306
Army Corps of Engineers, 48
aromas, 294
artificial intelligence (AI), 210
artificial life (AL), 210
artificial limbs, 253
aseptic meningitis, 130
Ashton, Kevin, 230
Asia, 192
Assateague, 137–38
assembly line, 235
Assisted Human Reproduction Act, 266
asthma, 301
Atelier DNA, 103
Athaeneum Hotel, 84
Atlantic City, N.J., 46–47
atom bomb tests, 34
attention disorders, 196
Audi, 236
Audubon Society, 137
Australia, 43, 46, 77, 164–65, 175, 298–99
Australian Outback, 54
Austria, 124
autism, 176, 285, 302
autobiographical memory, 217
azacitidine, 285
Aztecs, 112
babies, 259
Backhouse, David, 144
bacteria, 181–83, 187, 289, 291, 300
Bacteroides fragilis
, 302
baiji dolphins, 162
Ballard, J. G., 231
bamboo, 132
Bangladesh, 51–53, 271
basil, 89, 90
Bat Bomb Project, 145
bats, 115
Bavaria, Germany, 107
Baylis, Françoise, 266
beans, 190
beavers, 135
bee balm, 125
beebots, 181
bees, 147, 166
beetles, 164, 180–81
Bell Museum of Natural History, 115
beluga whales, 135, 144
Benenson, Peter, 98
Benyus, Janine, 92
Berridge, Matt, 5–7, 25–28, 202
Bespoke Innovations, 236–37
Bhutan, 72
big agriculture, 154
Big Sur, 115
biofuels, 64
bioluminescent foliage, 83
biomimicry, 91–92
bionic fingers, 13
bionic suits, 13
bioprinting, 238, 245–46
bipolar disorder, 285
birds, 216
extinction of, 139
bird’s-foot trefoil, 166
black bears, 126
“Black Marble” photograph, 17
Blade Runner
(film), 228, 253
Blanc, Patrick, 79–82, 84–85, 207
bleeding hearts, 125
Blizzard Nemo, 58
bloomers, 191
blue-jay feathers, 91
“Blue Marble” photograph, 17–18, 305
bobcats, 129
Boeing, 236
Bonassar, Lawrence, 243–52, 253
bonobos, 201–3
books, 171
Borges, Jorge Luis, 236
Borneo, 107, 132, 313
Boulogne, France, 83
Boulter, Nicky, 298–99
Bracken Cave, 145
brain, 150, 281
rewiring of, 191
scans of, 176–78
Bramel, Paula, 155
Brand, Stewart, 150
Branson, Richard, 54
Brazil, 46, 88, 123
breast milk, 301
breeding, 149–50
Breezy Point, N.Y., 45
Brittany, France, 62–63
Bronen, Robin, 48
Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, 45
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 82
Brown, Charles, 115–16
brown bears, 132
brown tree snake, 139
Budi (orangutan), 4–7, 25–26, 27, 28, 44, 122–23, 202, 269
iPad of, 4–7, 25–26, 27, 28, 71
building, heating of, 96–98
buildings, 90–94
bullfrogs, 132
burdock, 132
Burtynsky, Edward, 23–25