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mutationism and
snakes’ evolution from
speciation in
in timeline of life’s history
retroviruses
rhinoceros
rock:
measuring age of
ordering of layers of
rodents
mice,
see
mice
Rodhocetus
Romer, Alfred
Rothschild, Lord Walter
Ruse, Michael
 
saber-toothed tigers
sage grouse
Sahelanthropus tchadensis
St. Helena
Sao Tomé
schools, evolution/creationism debate and
science:
religion and
theories in,
see
theory
Scopes, John
Scopes Trial (Monkey Trial)
Scott, Robert
sea cucumbers
seahorses
seals, elephant
sea turtles
sea urchins
selection:
animal and plant breeding
artificial vs. natural
divergent
in laboratory
natural,
see
natural selection
sexual,
see
sexual selection
Selfish Gene, The
(Dawkins)
Selkirk, Alexander
Sereno, Paul
sexual behavior
sexual dimorphisms
sensory-bias models of
species classification and
sexual reproduction
speciation and
sexual selection
in birds
female choice in
gamete size and
geographic barriers and
in humans
male-male competition in
Sexual Selection
(Andersson)
shark embryos
Sheldon, Peter
Shermer, Michael
shrimp
Shubin, Neil
sickle-cell anemia
Simpson, George Gaylord
Sinornithosaurus millenii
skates
smell, sense of
snakes
soapberry bugs
Sociobiology
(Wilson)
South America
sparrows
speciation
convergent evolution and
geographical barriers and
in laboratory
in languages
mutationism and
pace of
polyploid
reproductive barriers and
sympatric
species
as accidents
classification of
cryptic
distribution of, see biogeography
as evolutionary communities
origins of, see speciation
sister
sperm
speciation and
Sphecomyrma freyi
(wasplike ant)
spiders
sponges
Staphylococcus aureus
stars
Steno, Nicolaus
stomachs
Streptococcus
succulents
Sullivan, Arthur
superposition
swordtails
Symanski, Richard
 
tails, vestigial and atavistic
Taungs child
Tay-Sachs disease
teeth:
birds and
in human evolution
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
testes
tetrapods
theory(ies)
evolution as
predictions from
theropods
tigers
saber-toothed
Tiktaalik roseae
tool use
transitional forms (missing links)
between ants and wasps
between fish and amphibians
between humans and apes ; see
also
human evolution
between reptiles and birds
between reptiles and mammals
between reptiles and snakes
in whale evolution
trees
acacia
leaf shapes in
palm
speciation in
trilobites
tuberculosis
Turkey
turtles, sea
 
urethra
 
Vertebrate Body, The
(Romer)
vertebrates
blood clotting in
embryonic development of
evolutionary tree of
and transitional form between fish and amphibians
vestigial genes (dead genes)
mutations in
vestigial traits
in humans
vestigial genes and
in whales
viruses
drug resistance in
vision, see eyes and vision
vitamin C
Von Baer, Karl Ernst
 
Wallace, Alfred Russel
wasps:
ants with features of
Asian giant hornets
orchids and
watchmaker analogy
Wegener, Alfred
Weir, Jacqueline
Weis, Arthur
Welch, Allison
Wells, John
whales
atavisms in
embryonic
vestigial traits in
wheat
wheatears
widowbirds
wild mustard
Williams, Robin
Wilson, Allan
Wilson, E. O.
wings
woodpeckers
wooly mammoths
worms roundworms
 
Xu, Xun
 
yolk sac
 
zebrafish
Zhaxybayeva, Olga
Zinsmeister, William
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