Darwin, Charles, , –, , , ,
–, , –, , , , ,
, , . See also evolution,
natural selection
as a breeder, , ,
The Descent of Man and Selection in
Relation to Sex,
dogs, –
eye evolution, –
language,
The Origin of Species, , –, , ,
,
studies of finches,
Darwin’s Black Box (Behe), –
Darwin’s finches (Geospiza sp.), –
Dawkins, Richard
The Ancestor’s Tale,
Climbing Mount Improbable,
De Castro, Bermudez,
DeCode,
Dembski, William,
The Descent of Man and Selection in
Relation to Sex (Darwin),
de Waal, Franz, –
Diamond, Jared
agriculture,
Great Leap Forward, –, ,
The Third Chimpanzee, ,
deoxyribonucleic acid. See DNA
Discovery Institute, , –. See also
Intelligent Design
“Wedge Document,”
DNA, , , , , , , , , ,
, , , , , , , , , ,
, , , , , , , ,
, , , . See also dogs,
genetic code, genome, maize,
mitochondrial DNA, Neanderthal
DNA, Y chromosome
ancient,
coding versus noncoding, ,
–
comparison of human and chimpanzee,
–,
conservation of sequence,
databases,
elimination, –
HIV,
intron, , –
information in nucleotides,
junk DNA, –,
microsatellites,
rates of evolution, , , – (see also
molecular clock)
“selfish DNA,” –
structure,
transcription,
translation,
uniform use in all life,
DNA Polymerase,
Dobzhansky, Theodosius, ,
Doebley, John, –
dogs, , , –
Dover, Pennsylvania, , , –. See also
Kitzmiller et al. vs Dover et al.
Drosophila, , , , , , –,
Drosophila mauritiana,
Drosophila melanogaster, , –, ,
–
Drosophila sechellia,
Drosophila simulans, –, ,
Drosophila subobscura, ,
Drosophila willistoni,
Drosophila yakuba, –
Druyan, Ann,
effective population size, , , .
See also genetic drift, population size
and ancestral polymorphisms,
of bonobos and chimpanzees, –
defined,
of dogs,
and genome size, –
of humans, , , ,
males versus females, –
and mitochondrial Eve,
of Neanderthals,
relationship with genetic drift, –,
and Y chromosome Adam,
Ehrlich, Paul
Human Natures,
electrophoresis, protein, , –, ,
Enlightenment, , ,
Enterococcus (bacterium),
Episcopal Church, –
Establishment Clause (of U.S. Constitution),
, –
Evans, Patrick,
Eve, Biblical, –
Eve, mitochondrial. See mitochondrial Eve
evolution, –, , , , , , –,
–, , , , , , , –, ,
, , , , , –, ,
–, , , , , ,
–, . See also Darwin, genetic
drift, intelligent design, language,
mutation, natural selection, neutral
theory, phylogeny
and American politics, –
and animal and plant breeding,
atheistic,
blood clotting, –
brain, –, , , , –,
–, , , –
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