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INDEX
*The following items may be used as a guide to search for information in this eBook.
A
ABC of Relativity, The (Russell)
adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
Agassiz, Louis
Agassiz’s theory
Ager, Derek V.
Aharanov, Yakir
AIDS; HIV virus
albedo (reflectiveness)
alchemy
All Species Foundation
Alpha Centauri
aluminum
Alvarez, Walter and Luis
America (New World): Ashfall Fossil Beds, Nebraska; asteroid craters; Buffon’s assertion of inferiority of; dinosaur bones, tracks, locations; dinosaurs, discovery of; human-caused extinctions; as land of opportunity; Lewis and Clark expedition; mammoth bones in; Sierra Nevada mountains; volcanoes
American Museum of Natural History
American Ornithology (Peale)
amino acids
Anderson, Ray
anesthesia
animal world: categories; unknown or new species. See also extinction of species; life; specific places and species
Annals of the Old Testament (Ussher)
Anning, Mary
Antarctica: collapse of West, ice sheet; crab-eater seals; penguins; planet’s ice, percentage of; Weddel seals
anthrax
Anthropologist on Mars, An (Sacks)
antibiotics
Antic Hay (Huxley)
Arambourg, Camille
archaebacteria
Armageddon (film)
Armstrong, Richard