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... See also Humans Birds, 3, 8, 9, 23, 26, 41 acceptance vs. belief, 49–50 Blood circulation and clotting, 12, 41 analogous structures, 25–26 Bonobos, 35 anatomical homologies, 24–25 Brain size, 9, 33–34 behavioral commonalities, 17, 24, 25 Brown University, 15 books on, 56–59 compatibility with religious faith, xii, 12–15, 49, 54 C continuing nature of, 18, 39 Cell theory, 11 defined, 4 Central Conference of American Rabbis, 13 DNA evidence, xii, 17, 28–32, 58 Chimpanzees, 24, 30, 31, 33, 35 as fact, xiii, 3, 11, 12 Chromosomes, 29 fossil record, xi, xii, xiii, 1–3, 9, 11, 17, 21, 22–23, Clergy Letter Project, 14 32, 33–35, 38–39, 42–43 Collins, Francis, 15 geographic evidence, 17, 26–28 Comparative anatomy, 24–26, 30 last common ancestors, 8, 24, 25 Computed axial tomography, 38 natural selection and, 50 Copernicus, 18 predictions from findings, 3, 11, 38 Coyne, George, 15 in public school education, xi–xiii, 43–45, 47, 52 Creationism.
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... See also DNA; Mutations Mice, 26, 30, 32 Hominids Microarray technology, 5 fossil record, 33–35 Microevolutionary changes, 6–7 Laetoli footprints, 33, 34 Milky Way galaxy, 20, 51 Homo erectus, 34, 35 Miller, Kenneth, 15 Homo habilis, 34, 35 Molecular biology. See also DNA; RNA Homo sapiens, 35 evidence of evolution from, 28–32 Homologies, 24–25 Moon, 21 Horses, 5, 23, 27 Mosquitoes, insecticide resistance, 39 Hox genes, 30, 41 Mutations, 4–5, 28–29, 40, 50 Hubble Space Telescope, 19 Human Genome Project, 15 N Humans National Human Genome Research Institute, 15 ancestral species, 8, 33–35 Natural selection, xiii, 4, 40.
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... Porpoises, 32 Stars, origin of, 19, 20 Primates, 8, 9, 24, 25, 31, 32–33. See also Humans Stromatolites, 21 Proconsul, 25 Supernovas, 20 Proteins, 4, 21, 22, 31–32, 40–41 T Protocells, 22 Tennessee laws, 44 Public school science curriculum Tetrapods, 2–3, 4, 8–9, 11, 23, 24, 30, 31–32, 38 creationism in, xii–xiii, 43–45, 53 Theory, defined, 11 critical thinking in, 52 Tiktaalik, 2–3, 4, 11, 23, 30, 38 evidentiary standard for, 53 Traits, 4, 5, 6, 7, 24, 28–29, 31, 50 role of evolution, xi–xii, 43, 47 teaching the "controversies," xiii, 52 U Universe R age of, 19–20, 38, 51 Radioactive decay, 20 expansion, 18–19 Radiometric dating, 17, 20, 51 origin of, 18–19, 57–58 Religion University of California, San Francisco, 5 compatibility of evolution with religious faith, 12–14, 49 V science and, xi, xiii, 12, 15, 47, 54 Viruses, 4, 5, 39 Reproductive W isolation, 7–8 Wallace, Alfred Russel, 12, 22–23 success, 4, 5, 8–9, 50 Warm-bloodedness, 9 Reptiles, 3, 8–9, 23, 41 Whales, 23, 24, 26, 32 RNA, 22, 31 Wheat domestication, 6 Wolves, 24, 27 Science, Evolution, and Creationism 69
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  • geographic evidence
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