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     diversity of,
7.1
,
7.2
,
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     extinctions of,
see
extinctions
     
hominid
     kings-of-the-hill,
7.1
,
7.2
     
of monkeys
     
perceptions of
     distances of,
2.1
,
2.2
     dust clouds around,
3.1
,
3.2
     elements in fuel of,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
     
formation of
     fusion reactions of,
2.1
,
3.1
     in galaxies,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
     in gas clouds,
2.1
,
2.2
     heavier elements created by,
2.1
,
2.2
     as supernovae,
2.1
,
2.2
     
variable
Stearns, Stephen,
10.1
,
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Stigler, Stephen,
10.1
,
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Stigler’s law,
10.1
,
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stone tools,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
stratigraphic layers,
1.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
5.1
,
7.1
,
9.1
,
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–2
n
,
bm1.2
n
–6
n
     
elements in
     
iridium
     in Nova Scotia,
7.1
,
7.2
Suess, Eduard,
6.1
,
6.2
,
bm1.1
n
     
formation of
     future of,
3.1
,
10.1
     heat radiated by,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
bm1.1
n
–5
n
     hydrogen as fuel of,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
     in solar system formation,
3.1
,
3.2
,
5.1
supernovae,
2.1
,
2.2
Swedenborg, Emanuel,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
bm1.1
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tectonics,
see
plate tectonics
telescopes,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
6.1
     
cooling of
     
of Galileo
     
Hubble Space
     
satellite
Teller, Edward,
2.1
,
2.2
temperatures, body,
4.1
,
6.1
temperatures, global,
8.1
,
9.1
     atmospheric carbon in,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
bm1.1
n
     color perception and,
8.1
,
bm1.1
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     cooling of,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
9.1
     human evolution affected by,
10.1
,
bm1.1
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     Milankovitch cycles in,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
     ocean currents in,
8.1
,
bm1.1
n
     100,000–year cycle of,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
     plate tectonics and,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
     sun’s heat in,
8.1
,
8.2
,
bm1.1
n
–5
n
     
warm and wet
     
see also
ice ages
Tharp, Marie,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6
,
6.7
,
6.8
,
bm1.1
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Tibetan Plateau,
6.1
,
8.1
time,
4.1
,
10.1
     days in,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
     geological,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
bm1.1
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–6
n
,
bm1.2
n
     measurements of,
4.1
,
4.2
     perception of,
4.1
,
bm1.1
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     seasons in,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
     years in,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
     
see also
circadian clocks
timepieces,
4.1
,
bm1.1
n
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
bm1.1
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trenches, deep-sea,
6.1
,
6.2
Tudge, Paul,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
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Tyler, Stanley,
5.1
,
5.2
Ulam, Stanislaw,
2.1
,
2.2
ultraviolet light,
3.1
,
4.1
,
8.1
universe,
1.1
,
2.1
     age of,
prl.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
     cooling of,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
     detecting patterns of,
2.1
,
2.2
     
expansion of
;
see also
big bang, theory of
     
size of
uranium 238,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
bm1.1
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Urey, Harold,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
van Leeuwenhoek, Anton,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
bm1.1
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Venus,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
9.1
     atmosphere of,
3.1
,
3.2
     characteristics of,
3.1
,
8.1
     liquid water lost by,
3.1
,
3.2
     phases of,
3.1
,
5.1
Vine, Frederick,
6.1
,
bm1.1
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volcanoes,
3.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
     carbon ejected by,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
     undersea,
5.1
,
6.1
,
8.1
Voyager
spacecraft,
3.1
     in acid rain,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
     in comets,
3.1
,
bm1.1
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–7
n
     erosion by,
3.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
     in human body,
3.1
,
3.2
     oxygen content of,
5.1
,
6.1
     
as solvent
     
states of
     Venus’s loss of,
3.1
,
3.2
water molecule,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
Wegener, Alfred,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6
,
6.7
,
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Went, F. W.,
5.1
,
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Wilson, John Tuzo,
6.1
,
6.2
,
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Woods Hole conference,
7.1
,
7.2
,
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World War II,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
7.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
Your Inner Fish
(Shubin),
prl.1
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1.1
zircons,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Neil Shubin is the author of the best-selling
Your Inner Fish
. He has been one of the major forces behind a new evolutionary synthesis of expeditionary paleontology, developmental genetics, and genomics. He and his colleagues made one of the most important fossil discoveries in the history of the National Geographic Society. Trained at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley, Shubin is currently a professor and associate dean of biological sciences at the University of Chicago. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

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