Darwin’s Enigma

Luther D. Sunderland
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Abrupt appearance 23, 24, 43, 95, 97, 150
Acquired characteristics 14, 21
Amino aads 8, 53, 137, 156
Amphibians 29. 42, 63-66, 70
Antibiotic drugs 143
Archaeopteryx 69-71, 74-76, 89
Arkansas Balanced Treatment Act 37
Assumptions 21, 23, 31, 42, 44, 45, 54, 61, 73, 78, 86, 104, 116, 145, 147, 156, 157
Axiom 5, 31, 32, 144, 147, 159
Australopithecines 87
Australopithecus africanus 93
Australopithecus robustus 93

Beagle 15, 19
Beetles 18, 103
Biogenetic law 118-120
Bird 17, 42, 64-66, 69-76, 89, 97, 98, 123, 130, 139, 151
Brachiopods 44, 49, 114
Burgess shale 49

Cambrian 42-53, 62, 64, I44
Cambrian explosion 45, 47, 5l
Catastrophe 100, 111,112,114,157
Cell 7, 8, 19, 23, 29, 57-62, 93, 138, 141, 145, 146, 156
Cenozoic 42
Chordates 46
Classification 14, 20, 35, 43, 47, 65, 66, 71
Claws 74
Common ancestor, 9,14,16, 21, 24, 27, 29-31, 38, 39, 43, 44, 93, 95, 104, 118, 130, 133, 153
Creation 13,15,16, 23, 24, 27, 31, 32, 37, 42, 45, 88, 94, 98, 119, 135, 141, 146
Cretaceous 43, 77, 88, 158
Crossopterician 63

Darwinism 13, 14, 21, 23, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33, 35, 65, 105, 109, 110, 112, 116, 118, 127, 142
Dinosaurs 42, 43, 65, 71, 72, 79, 88,114
DNA 8, 31, 54, 59, 61, 123, 133, 136, 138, 141, 154, 156

Ear 76, 79
Early atmosphere 54-59,156
Echinoderms 62, 63
E. coli 59, 136
Edicaran 46-48
Egg 64-66, 72, 76, 97, 98
Elephants 84
Embryology 14, 118-120
Emu 71, 75
Enuma elish 13
Enzymes 58-61, 156
Eohippus 81, 92
Epigenesis 34, 102
Equus 81
Eras 42
Evolution 13-16,19-24, 26-28, 30-33, 35, 36, 38, 39, 42-44, 46, 48, 50, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 72, 76-78, 81, 88, 90, 91, 93, 94, 97, 98,
101-106. 109, 110, 115, 116, 118, 122, 130, 133, 135, 137, 140, 142, 144, I48, 149, 151, 155
Eye 52, 53, 84,123, 150, 151,154

Facts 5,10, 26, 30, 35, 36, 41, 48, 114, 143
Faith 9, 27, 30, 36, 37, 73, 90, 98,107,110, 133, 134
Feathers 69-75
Fish 29, 42, 62-66, 70, 91,113, 114, 121, 123
Fossils 9, 11, 14, 22, 24, 30, 39, 41-46, 48, 49, 51, 57, 65, 77-79, 81, 83-85, 87-90, 94, 99, 112-114, 120. 131, 150-151
Fruit flies 105, 115, 143, 144

Genes 62, 115, 124
Geologic column 41-43, 48,156,157
Geology 18, 39, 94, 111
Germantown formation 49
Gill slits 121
Giraffe 14, 83, 84
Gradualism 72, 89, 97-99,102,104-108

Harvard 10, 21, 98, 110, 137, 149
Hemoglobin 137
Heterostracan fish 44, 62, 64
Hoatzin 74, 75
Homo habilis 93
Homology 122-124
Homo sapiens 99
Hopeful monster theory 10, 35, 98,100
Horse 81, 92
Humanist Manifesto 37, 38
Hypothesis 29, 38
Hyracotherium 80, 81
Hyrax 81

Insects 13, 17, 72, 74, 76, 88
Invertebrates 29, 44, 46, 62, 63, 80
Isua 48

Jaw 76, 79, 84
John Day formation 81
Jurassic 75, 77

Macroevolution 34, 63, 80, 90, 101, 102, 104, 105, 132
Mammals 42, 65, 70, 76, 77, 79, 80, 84, 86, 103, 121, 123 139
Marxism 108, 109
Mesozoic 42
Metaphysics 26, 28, 30
Metazoa 29, 46, 47, 51, 52
Missing link 99,100
Molecular biology 124
Monkeys 61, 84, 85
Mutation 32, 33,101,105-107, 115,130, 137, 139, 141-143, 155

Natural selection 15,16,19 26, 27, 32-36, 44, 60, 62, 92, 102, 106, 117, 133, 136, 139, 143, 144, 149, 151
Nodes 76

Ordovician 44, 49
Ostrich 71, 74

Paleontologists 11, 43, 44, 65, 80, 89, 98, 99, 107, 108, 131
Paleontology 27, 29, 39, 94, 111
Paleozoic 42, 50
Panspermia 22-24, 54, 55
Penicillin 136
Phyla 45-47, 49, 80, 91, 95
Plants 14, 80, 90, 94 95,103,115
Population genetics 116
Precambrian 43, 45-50, 54, 57, 156
Precambrian Paleobiology Research Group 57
Primates 84-87
Probability 54, 57-62,134,136, 139
Protozoa 29, 156
Pseudofossils 46
Punctuated equilibria 10, 22-24, 86, 97, 98, 100, 102, 104, 108 111, 144

Random 16, 27, 133, 136, 137, 140, 142, 143, 154, 155
Random processes 58-60, 62, 134, 138, 149, 150
Recapitulation 118-122

Saltation 97
Scales 69-73
Science 25-27, 29-31, 37, 38, 55, 77, 89, 90,118,123,139,147,148
Second law of thermodynamics 60, 138
Sickle-cell anemia 137, 142, 143
Species 19, 21, 47, 74-76, 79, 80, 91 92, 97, 99, 102, 104, 106, 107, 116, 123, 131, 137, 140, 144
Spontaneous generation 13, 23, 53, 54, 59, 61, 62. 146
Squid 52
Stromatolites 46
Survival of the fittest 16,19, 20, 24, 36, 137
Synthetic theory 102,109,144

Tarsiers 85
Tautology 32-34, 36,140,142
Taxonomy 35
Teeth 70, 75, 86,122
Theory 10, 11, 13, 14, 20-24, 26-31, 33, 35-39, 42, 57, 59-61, 71, 78, 88, 91-93, 95, 98-100, 102, 104, 105, 118, 122-124, 139, 145,
155
Touraco 74Transitional forms 29, 63, 64, 67, 71, 75, 76, 80, 82, 88, 89, 91, 92, 94, 98, 99, 107, 139, 140, 148, 149
Trilobites 22, 44, 48-50, 52, 98,131,150, 151

Uniformitarianism 110-112, 156-158

Vertebrates 29, 46, 62-64, 70, 75, 80

Whales 77, 122-124
Wistar Symposium 32,134
Wolf 64, 77

Yale 10, 71

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