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clubs for, 67–69 evolution of, 78, 81–85, 87
early, 15, 17, 19, 61–62 information about evolution from
geological maps and, 67 fossils, 20–21
See also specific individuals migrations out of Africa, 86–87,
fossilization, described, 23 88–89
fossils modern behaviors of, 89–90
described, 7 scientific family, 80–81
index, 42–43 scientific “tribe,” 81
information learned from, 20–21 Hutton, James, 38, 40
origin of word, 8
recording and extracting, 72–74 i
trace, 33–34 Iceman, 23
Foster, John, 75 Iguanodon, 19
Friends of Dinosaur Ridge, 34 imagination, 89–90
index fossils, 42–43
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Galileo, 9 J
geological maps, 67 Jefferson, Thomas, 18
Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, 58 Johanson, Donald, 82
giant ground sloth skeletons, 25 Johnson, Kirk, 22–23, 71
Gobi Desert, Asia, 74 Jurassic West (Foster), 75
Goodall, Jane, 80
Gould, Stephen Jay, 40, 57 K
graptolites, 43 Kelvin, Lord (Baron Kelvin of Largs),
Greeks, ancient, 8–9, 10 45, 46, 47
Green River (U.S.) fish fossils, 62, 69 Kenya, 84
grid method, 72 Kimeu, Kamoya, 84
griffins, 10 KT boundary, 63–64

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hadrosaurs, 60 La Brea Tar Pits, 27, 61, 77
Hallucigenia, 57–58 Laborde, Albert, 45
Harper’s Magazine, 45–46 lace crabs, 55
Hell Creek Formation (Montana), Laetoli site, 82
75 Laggania, 56
Hill, Andrew, 82 Lakes, Arthur, 60, 74
hominin remains Leakey, Mary, 82
DNA from, 81–82 Leakey, Richard, 84
Lucy, 83–84 Lewis, Meriwether, 18
tracks, 82, 83–84 living fossils, 17
Hominini, 81 Lockley, Martin, 34
Hominoidea, 80–81 Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
Homo erectus, 84 (Burchfield), 46
Homo habilis, 84 Los Angeles, California, 27, 61, 77
Homo sapiens, 82 The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt
Hooke, Robert, 12–14 (Nothdurft), 69
humans Lucas, O.W., 60
Cambrian Explosion and, 57 Lucy, 83–84
chimpanzee relationship to, 80 Lucy, the Beginning of Humankind
coexistence of species of, 19–20, (Johanson), 82
20–21 Lyell, Charles, 40–41

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