The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People

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by Neil Shubin

human evolution affected by, 10.1, bm1.1n

  Milankovitch cycles in, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  nuclear measurement of

  ocean currents in, 8.1, bm1.1n

  100,000–year cycle of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  plate tectonics and, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

  sun’s heat in, 8.1, 8.2, bm1.1n–5n

  warm and wet

  see also ice ages

  Tharp, Marie, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, bm1.1n

  Thule Air Base

  Tibetan Plateau, 6.1, 8.1

  time, 4.1, 10.1

  days in, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5

  geological, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, bm1.1n–6n, bm1.2n

  measurements of, 4.1, 4.2

  perception of, 4.1, bm1.1n

  seasons in, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  years in, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  see also circadian clocks

  Time

  timepieces, 4.1, bm1.1n

  time zones

  Transantarctic Mountains

  Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, 7.1, 7.2, bm1.1n

  trenches, deep-sea, 6.1, 6.2

  Triassic period

  Tudge, Paul, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, bm1.1n

  Twins

  Tyler, Stanley, 5.1, 5.2

  Ulam, Stanislaw, 2.1, 2.2

  ultraviolet light, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1

  universe, 1.1, 2.1

  age of, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

  cooling of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

  detecting patterns of, 2.1, 2.2

  expansion of; see also big bang, theory of

  size of

  uranium 238, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, bm1.1n

  Uranus

  Urey, Harold, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  van Leeuwenhoek, Anton, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, bm1.1n

  variable stars

  Venera missions, Soviet

  Venus, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 9.1

  atmosphere of, 3.1, 3.2

  characteristics of, 3.1, 8.1

  liquid water lost by, 3.1, 3.2

  Mariner missions to

  phases of, 3.1, 5.1

  Pioneer mission to

  Soviet Venera missions to

  Vine, Frederick, 6.1, bm1.1n

  volcanoes, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1

  around Antarctica

  carbon ejected by, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  undersea, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1

  Voyager spacecraft, 3.1

  Wallace, Alfred Russel

  water, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1

  in acid rain, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  in comets, 3.1, bm1.1n–7n

  erosion by, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2

  in human body, 3.1, 3.2

  molecular forces of

  oxygen content of, 5.1, 6.1

  as solvent

  states of

  Venus’s loss of, 3.1, 3.2

  water clocks

  water molecule, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  Wegener, Alfred, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, bm1.1n

  Went, F. W., 5.1, bm1.1n

  whales

  willow trees, Arctic

  Wilson, Edward

  Wilson, John Tuzo, 6.1, 6.2, bm1.1n

  Wilson, Robert

  Woods Hole conference, 7.1, 7.2, bm1.1n

  World War II, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2

  Yale University

  Your Inner Fish (Shubin), prl.1, 1.1

  zircons, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, bm1.1n, bm1.2n

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Neil Shubin is the author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish. He has been one of the major forces behind a new evolutionary synthesis of expeditionary paleontology, developmental genetics, and genomics. He and his colleagues made one of the most important fossil discoveries in the history of the National Geographic Society. Trained at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley, Shubin is currently a professor and associate dean of biological sciences at the University of Chicago. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

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  Your Inner Fish • 978-0-307-37716-6

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