by Bill Bryson
earthquakes, Chapter 13.1, Chapter 14.1, Chapter 15.1, Chapter 27.1
earthworms, Chapter 23.1
Ebbing, Darrell, Chapter 08.1n
Ebola virus, Chapter 20.1, 20.2
Eddington, Sir Arthur, Chapter 08.1
Ediacaran Hills, fossils, Chapter 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, Chapter 22.1, 22.2
Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried, Chapter 19.1
Einstein, Albert: on Brownian motion, Chapter 08.1, Chapter 09.1; career, 08.2, 08.3, 09.2; on cosmological constant, 08.4, Chapter 11.1; death, Chapter 12.1; E=mc2, 08.5, 08.6; Hapgood foreword, 12.2, 12.3; on mass and energy, Chapter 07.1, 08.7; Nobel Prize, 08.8, 09.3; photographs, 07.2, 08.9, 08.10; on quantum theory, 08.11, 09.4; relativity theory, Chapter 01.1, 07.3, 08.12, 08.13, 08.14; reputation, 08.15, 08.16, 09.5; works, 08.17
Einstein, Mileva, Chapter 08.1, 08.2
electricity, experiments, Chapter 03.1, 03.2
electromagnetism, Chapter 01.1, Chapter 11.1
electrons: discovery, Chapter 09.1; formation, Chapter 01.1; Mendeleyev’s work, Chapter 07.1; negative charge, 09.2; number in atom, 09.3; orbits, 09.4, 09.5; Uncertainty Principle, 09.6; wave or particle, 09.7
elements, Chapter 07.1, Chapter 16.1
Elliott, Charles, Chapter 23.1
Ellis, Len, Chapter 23.1, 23.2
Elwin, Whitwell, Chapter 25.1
Emerald Pool, Chapter 15.1
Endeavour voyage, Chapter 23.1
entropy, Chapter 08.1
enzymes, Chapter 24.1
Eocene period, Chapter 05.1
erosion, Chapter 05.1
erratics, Chapter 27.1, 27.2
Erwin, Terry, Chapter 23.1
ether, the, Chapter 08.1
ethyl, Chapter 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Ethyl Corporation, Chapter 10.1, 10.2
Etna, Mount, Chapter 12.1
eukaryotes, Chapter 19.1, Chapter 20.1
euryapsids, Chapter 22.1
Evans, Robert, Chapter 03.1, 03.2, 03.3, 03.4
evaporation, Chapter 17.1
evolution, Chapter 16.1, Chapter 21.1, Chapter 25.1, Chapter 28.1
Exclusion Principle, Chapter 09.1
extinction, Chapter 06.1, Chapter 22.1, Chapter 30.1
extremophiles, Chapter 15.1, Chapter 16.1n, Chapter 20.1
eyelashes, Chapter 20.1
Fahrenheit, Daniel Gabriel, Chapter 17.1
Falconer, Hugh, Chapter 06.1
Fallarone Islands, Chapter 18.1
Family Tree of Man, Chapter 20.1
Fermi, Enrico, Chapter 11.1
fermions, Chapter 11.1
Ferris, Timothy, Chapter 04.1, Chapter 09.1, Chapter 13.1
Feynman, Richard: on atoms, Chapter 09.1, 09.2, 09.3; on gravitation, Chapter 04.1; on interior of Earth, Chapter 14.1; on particle physics, Chapter 11.1, 11.2, 11.3; photographs, 11.4; on planetary orbits, 04.2; on reasoning, Chapter 16.1
finches: Galápagos, Chapter 25.1, 25.2; koa, Chapter 30.1
fish, Chapter 18.1, Chapter 22.1, 22.2
Fisher, Osmond, Chapter 14.1
fishing, Chapter 18.1, 18.2 FitzRoy, Robert, Chapter 25.1, 25.2
Flannery, Tim: on Australian coastline, Chapter 18.1; on extinction, Chapter 30.1, 30.2, 30.3; on ice ages, Chapter 27.1; on KT impact, Chapter 22.1; on radiocarbon dating, Chapter 10.1
flu epidemic (1918), Chapter 20.1, 20.2, 20.3
Focke, Wilhelm Olbers, Chapter 25.1
Folger, Timothy, Chapter 27.1
footprints, Laetoli, Chapter 28.1, 28.2
foraminiferans, Chapter 17.1, 17.2, Chapter 22.1
Forbes, Edward, Chapter 18.1
Fortey, Richard: on bacteria, Chapter 23.1; on dinosaur models, Chapter 06.1; on early life forms, Chapter 19.1, 19.2, Chapter 21.1; on extinction, Chapter 22.1, 22.2; on geological disputes, Chapter 05.1, 21.2; on specialists, 23.2, 23.3; on trilobites, 21.3, 21.4
fossils: Anning’s work, Chapter 06.1; anomalies, Chapter 12.1; Ashfall Fossil Beds, Chapter 14.1, 14.2; Burgess Shale, Chapter 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, Chapter 22.1; dating rocks, 06.2; dinosaurs, 06.3, 06.4, 06.5, 22.2; Ediacaran, 21.4, 21.5, 21.6; evidence, Chapter 05.1; extinction theories, 06.6; formation, 21.7; location, 05.2, 12.2; mammoth, 06.7; Mantell’s work, 06.8; record, 21.8, 22.3, Chapter 28.1, Chapter 29.1, 29.2
Fowler, W. A., Chapter 03.1
Franklin, Benjamin, Chapter 04.1, Chapter 05.1, Chapter 27.1
Franklin, Rosalind, Chapter 26.1, 26.2
Fraser, John, Chapter 23.1
fruit flies, Chapter 26.1, 26.2, 26.3
Fuhlrott, Johann Karl, Chapter 28.1
Fuji, Mount, Chapter 14.1
fungi, Chapter 20.1, 20.2, Chapter 22.1, Chapter 23.1, 23.2
Galápagos Islands, Chapter 18.1, 18.2, Chapter 25.1
galaxies, Chapter 08.1, 08.2
Galeras, eruption, Chapter 14.1
Gamow, George, Chapter 01.1
Gehrels, Tom, Chapter 13.1
Geiger, Hans, Chapter 09.1
Gell-Mann, Murray, Chapter 11.1, 11.2
genes: betaglobin, Chapter 29.1; description, Chapter 26.1, 26.2, 26.3; experiments, 26.4, 26.5; functions, 26.6, 26.7; hox, 26.8; numbers, 26.9; term, Chapter 25.1, 26.10
genetics, Chapter 16.1, Chapter 25.1, Chapter 29.1
genome, Chapter 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 26.4
Geological Society, Chapter 05.1, 05.2, 05.3, Chapter 06.1, Chapter 10.1
geology: eras and epochs, Chapter 05.1, 05.2; rock dating, Chapter 06.1, Chapter 10.1, Chapter 19.1; science of, Chapter 04.1, 05.3
geysers, Chapter 15.1, 15.2
Gibbs, J. Willard, Chapter 08.1, 08.2, 08.3
Gilbert, G. K., Chapter 13.1
glaciation, Chapter 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 27.4, 27.5
Glicken, Harry, Chapter 14.1
global warming, Chapter 27.1
Glossopteris, Chapter 12.1
gluons, Chapter 11.1
Godfray, G. H., Chapter 23.1
Godin, Jean, Chapter 04.1
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Chapter 17.1
Goksøyr, Jostein, Chapter 23.1
Gold, Thomas, Chapter 20.1
Goldsmith, Donald, Chapter 11.1
Gondwana, Chapter 12.1
Gormley, Antony, Chapter 26.1, Chapter 27.1
Gould, John, Chapter 25.1
Gould, Stephen Jay: on Burgess Shale, Chapter 21.1, 21.2; on Crampton, Chapter 23.1; on emergence of life, Chapter 19.1; on human history, Chapter 22.1, Chapter 28.1; on Lyell, Chapter 05.1; on meteor impact, Chapter 13.1; photograph, 21.3
Granger, T., Chapter 17.1
Grant, Robert, Chapter 06.1
Grant, Ulysses S., Chapter 08.1
grasses, Chapter 23.1
gravity: Einstein’s work, Chapter 08.1; formation, Chapter 01.1; gravitational constant, Chapter 04.1, 04.2; measurement, 04.3; Newton’s work, 04.4, 04.5; strength, 01.2
Great Rift Valley, Chapter 29.1, 29.2, 29.3
greenhouse effect, Chapter 03.1, Chapter 10.1, Chapter 27.1
Greenland ice sheet, Chapter 18.1, Chapter 27.1, 27.2
Greer, Frank, Chapter 20.1
Gregory, Bruce, Chapter 08.1
Gregory, J. W., Chapter 29.1, 29.2
Gribbin, John, Chapter 18.1, Chapter 19.1, Chapter 28.1
Groves, Colin, Chapter 23.1
Gulf Stream, Chapter 17.1, Chapter 27.1, 27.2
Gutenberg, Beno, Chapter 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Guth, Alan, Chapter 01.1, 01.2
Guyot, Arnold, Chapter 12.1
guyots, Chapter 12.1, 12.2, Chapter 18.1
Habeler, Peter, Chapter 17.1
Hadley, George, Chapter 17.1
Hadley cells, Chapter 17.1
hadrons, Chapter 11.1
Haeckel, Ernst, Chapter 18.1, Chapter 20.1, 20.2, Chapter 23.1
Haldane, J. B. S., Chapter 01.1, Chapter 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Haldane, John Scott, Chapter 16.1, 16.2
half-life, Chapter 07.1
halibut, Chapter 18.1
Hallam, Arthur, Chapter 27.1
Halley, Edmond: on atmosphere, Chapter 17.1; career, Chapter 02.1, Chapter 04.1; on dating the Earth, Chapter 05.1, Chapter 06.1; on Newton, 04.2; Newton visit, 04.3, 04.4; planetary orbit wager, 04.5, Chapter 30.1; portrait, 04.6; production of Principia, 04.7; on transits of Venus, 04.8
Halley’s comet, Chapter 02.1, Chapter 04.1, Chapter 19.1
Halloy, J. J. d’Omalius d’, Chapter 05.1
Hallucigenia, Chapter 20.1, Chapter 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
hand-axes, Chapter 28.1, Chapter 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 29.4
Hapgood, Charles, Chapter 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Harding, Rosalind, Chapter 29.1
Harrington, Robert, Chapter 02.1
Harrison, John, Chapter 04.1
Hart, Michael, Chapter 16.1
Hartsoecker, Nicolaas, Chapter 24.1
Haughton, Samuel, Chapter 06.1
Hawaii: birds, Chapter 30.1; volcanoes, Chapter 14.1, Chapter 15.1
Hawking, Stephen, Chapter 08.1, 08.2, Chapter 09.1
heart, Chapter 24.1, 24.2, Chapter 26.1
Hebgen Lake, earthquake, Chapter 15.1, 15.2
Heisenberg, Werner, Chapter 09.1, 09.2
Helin, Eleanor, Chapter 13.1
helium, Chapter 01.1, 01.2, 01.3, Chapter 07.1, Chapter 09.1, 09.2
Hell Creek formation, fossils, Chapter 06.1, Chapter 22.1
Helmholz, Hermann von, Chapter 05.1
Hemphillian extinction, Chapter 22.1
Herschel, William, Chapter 04.1, Chapter 13.1
Hess, Harry, Chapter 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, Chapter 18.1
Hessler, Robert, Chapter 18.1
Higgs, Peter, Chapter 11.1
Higgs boson, Chapter 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Hildebrand, Alan, Chapter 13.1
Hiortner, Olof, Chapter 17.1
Hipparchus of Nicaea, Chapter 04.1n
Hipparion, Chapter 12.1, 12.2
HIV/AIDS, Chapter 19.1, Chapter 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, Chapter 26.1
Hogg, John, Chapter 20.1
Holmes, Arthur, Chapter 10.1, 10.2, Chapter 12.1, 12.2
Holmyard, E. J., Chapter 09.1
Holocene period, Chapter 27.1
hominids: australopithecines, Chapter 28.1; bipedalism, 28.2; brain size, 28.3, 28.4; classification, 28.5; multiregionalism, Chapter 29.1; remains, 28.6, 28.7, 29.2; Sumatran fossils, 28.8; term, 28.9n; Turkana finds, 28.10; types, 28.11
Homo erectus: brain size, Chapter 29.1, 29.2; character, Chapter 28.1, 28.2; classification, 28.3, 28.4, 29.3, 29.4; dates, Chapter 27.1, 28.5, 28.6, 28.7, 29.5; diet, 28.8; Dubois’ discovery, 28.9, 28.10, 28.11, 28.12, 28.13; Peking man, 28.14, 28.15; portrait, 27.2; remains, 28.16, 28.17; Solo People, 28.18; speech, 28.19; territory, 28.20, 28.21, 29.6; tool use, 28.22, 29.7; Turkana finds, 28.23
Homo habilis, Chapter 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4, 28.5, 28.6, Chapter 29.1
Homo sapiens: appearance, Chapter 29.1; brain size, 29.2; burial, 29.3; classification, Chapter 28.1, 29.4; skulls, 28.2, 29.5; territory, 29.6, 29.7, 29.8; tools, 29.9; type specimen, Chapter 06.1
homunculi, Chapter 24.1
Hooke, Robert, Chapter 04.1, Chapter 24.1, 24.2, Chapter 30.1
Hooker, Joseph, Chapter 25.1, 25.2
Hopkins, William, Chapter 27.1
hormones, Chapter 24.1
Hornschuch, Dr, Chapter 22.1
horses, Chapter 22.1, Chapter 23.1
Howard, Luke, Chapter 17.1, 17.2
Howell, F. Clark, Chapter 28.1, 28.2
hox genes, Chapter 26.1
Hoyle, Fred, Chapter 03.1, 03.2, 03.3, Chapter 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Hubble, Edwin, Chapter 08.1, 08.2, Chapter 11.1
Hubble constant, Chapter 11.1
Hubble Space Telescope, Chapter 02.1, Chapter 08.1, 08.2, Chapter 11.1, Chapter 13.1
Human Genome Project, Chapter 26.1, 26.2
Humboldt, Alexander von, Chapter 23.1, Chapter 27.1
Hunt, George, Chapter 23.1
Hunter, John, Chapter 06.1, 06.2
Hunterian Museum, Chapter 06.1, 06.2, 06.3, Chapter 28.1
Hutton, Charles, Chapter 04.1, 04.2
Hutton, James, Chapter 05.1, 05.2, 05.3, Chapter 12.1, Chapter 27.1
Huxley, Aldous, Chapter 16.1, 16.2
Huxley, T. H.: on catastrophism, Chapter 05.1; on Darwin’s work, Chapter 25.1, 25.2; on Neandertal bones, Chapter 28.1; Owen’s career, Chapter 06.1, 06.2; portrait, 25.3; saltationist, 25.4; son-in-law, 25.5; on Vestiges, 25.6; Wilberforce encounter, 25.7
Hyde, Jack, Chapter 14.1
hydrocyanic acid, Chapter 07.1, Chapter 09.1
hydrogen: atomic weight, Chapter 09.1; bomb, 09.2; Cavendish’s work, Chapter 04.1; combustion, Chapter 16.1; commonest element, Chapter 07.1; composition of living objects, 16.2, Chapter 19.1, 19.2; conversion to helium, Chapter 01.1; formation, 01.2, 01.3; Lavoisier’s work, 07.2; photosynthesis, 19.3; protons, 09.3; Rozier’s work, 04.2; water, 04.3, 16.3, Chapter 18.1; wavelengths, 09.4
hydrosphere, Chapter 18.1
hydrothermal explosions, Chapter 15.1
hylaeosaurus, Chapter 06.1
hyperthermophiles, Chapter 15.1
ice, Chapter 18.1, 18.2
ice age(s): Agassiz’s theory, Chapter 27.1; causes, 27.2; Croll’s work, 27.3; Cryogenian, 27.4, 27.5; current, 27.6, 27.7; cycles, 27.8; Little, 27.9, 27.10; Milankovitch’s work, 27.11; Neandertals, Chapter 29.1; Schimper’s work, 27.12; term, 27.13
ice cores Chapter 10.1, Chapter 15.1, Chapter 27.1
ice sheets, Chapter 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 27.4, 27.5
ichthyosaurus, Chapter 06.1
Ichthyostega, Chapter 22.1, 22.2
iguanodon, Chapter 06.1, 06.2, 06.3, 06.4, 06.5
illness, Chapter 20.1
inflation theory, Chapter 01.1
insects, Chapter 22.1, 22.2, Chapter 23.1, 23.2, 23.3
inverse square law, Chapter 04.1, 04.2, Chapter 24.1
ionosphere, Chapter 17.1
iridium, Chapter 13.1
iron, Chapter 16.1, Chapter 19.1, Chapter 20.1
Isaacs, John, Chapter 18.1
isotopes, Chapter 09.1, Chapter 22.1
Izett, Glenn, Chapter 13.1
Jardine, Lisa, Chapter 26.1, 26.2
Jarvik, Erik, Chapter 22.1
Java man: classification, Chapter 28.1; development, Chapter 29.1, 29.2; discovery, 28.2, 28.3; genes, 29.3; territory, 28.4, 29.4, 29.5
Jefferson, Thomas, Chapter 06.1, 06.2, 06.3
Jeffreys, Alec, Chapter 26.1
Jeffreys, Harold, Chapter 12.1
Jenkin, Fleeming, Chapter 25.1
jet streams, Chapter 17.1, 17.2
Johanson, Donald, Chapter 28.1, 28.2
Johnston, David, Chapter 14.1, 14.2
Joly, John, Chapter 06.1, Chapter 07.1
Joseph, Lawrence, Chapter 09.1
Jurassic period, Chapter 05.1
Kaku, Michio, Chapter 08.1, Chapter 11.1
Kelly, Kevin, Chapter 23.1
Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord, Chapter 05.1, 05.2, Chapter 06.1, Chapter 07.1, Chapter 19.1, Chapter 25.1
Kelvinator Company, Chapter 05.1
Kenyanthropus platyops, Chapter 28.1, 28.2
Keynes, John Maynard, Chapter 04.1
kimberlite pipes, Chapter 14.1
Kimeu, Kamoya, Chapter 28.1, 28.2