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