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                                        handedness, 113
        acquired traits                 polymers, 113–114
           Mendelian genetics, 18–19    RNA, 115
           in modern evolutionary thought, 20  sequence comparisons, 122–123
           mutations, inferior to, 25   See also molecular analysis
           variation, mechanism for, 17–18  amphibians, 123
        Adoutte, André, 124           anthropological principle, 143, 145
        Africa, 132–133, 137–138      antibiotic resistance, 26, 87
        African Eve theory. See Mitochondrial   anti-gravitational force, 150
        Eve                           anti-religious bias, 45, 145, 182–183
        Agassiz, Louis, 3, 205        ants, symbiotic communities of, 189
        Aguinaldo, Anna Marie, 123    Aquinas, Thomas, 67
        Aix-en-Provence (France), 135–136  archeology, 4–5. See also human
        Akey, David B., 140           origins
        Alberta Report Newsmagazine, 41–42  Archilochus colubris (hummingbird,
        Alberts, Bruce, 33, 34, 103    ruby-throated), 190–191
        alchemists, 120               Arctic tern (Sterna paradiseae), 190
        American Museum of Natural    Argentina, 137–138
          History, 92                 art
        amino acids                     inspiration in, 187–188
           creation of, 33–34, 108, 110–112  prehistoric, 135, 136
           cross-reactions, 111–113
                                      atheism, 3, 46, 90, 182. See also
           DNA codes, 120              science and religion
           geological deposits, 112–113  atmosphere, 34, 108, 110–111
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