I Have Landed (63 page)

¹²
This “viewpoint” appeared in
Time
magazine, 13 September 1999.

¹³
As a happy footnote, I can now report (while editing this essay for republication in book form at the outset of the next millennium) that some good old-fashioned political activism turned the fundamentalist rascals out in the subsequent school board election of 2000—and that evolution has now been restored to the Kansas curriculum.

¹⁴
I would like to dedicate this essay to Ernst Mayr, the greatest taxonomist of the twentieth (and twenty-first) century, who remains as intellectually active as ever at age ninety-six, and who taught me, through his writing and the human contact of personal friendship, the central principle of our science (and of this essay): that taxonomies are active theories about the causes of natural order, not objective, unchanging, and preexisting stamp albums for housing nature's obvious facts.

¹⁵
An article by Q. Ti and several colleagues, published soon after this essay appeared (
Nature
, 26 April 2001), elegantly proves the existence of feathered dinosaurs that could not have used these structures for flight.

¹⁶
This piece appeared in Canada's national newspaper,
The Globe and Mail
, on September 20, 2001. The last paragraph paraphrases several lines from the Canadian national anthem. Mr. Sukanen truly existed (as does the town of Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan). Evangeline belongs to Mr. Longfellow's artistry, but their link, as Canadians at home vs. those now resident in the United States, reinforces the theme of this small tribute.

¹⁷
This
New York Times
op-ed piece ran on September 26, 2001. They used a different title; I now restore my original and intended version.

¹⁸
From
Natural History
magazine. I wrote this piece after the other three of this section. The chronology is important for my general intention and feelings, but, for obvious reasons in the context of this book, the subsequent piece must come last.

¹⁹
This op-ed appeared in the
Boston Globe
on September 30, 2001.

A
aron, Hank,
(i)

Abel, murder of,
(i)
,
(ii)

abnormalities, “fixing” of,
(i)

Abraham, Nicolas,
(i)

accuracy, value of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

Acton, Lord John,
(i)

Ada
(Nabokov),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Adam

children of,
(i)
,
(ii)

creation of,
(i)
,
(ii)

as generic term,
(i)

Hebrew meaning of name,
(i)

human existence before,
(i)

names assigned by,
(i)
,
(ii)

as progenitor of all humans,
(i)

as progenitor of Jewish history,
(i)

sins of,
(i)

Adams, John,
(i)

adaptation,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

as mimicry,
(i)
,
(ii)

of native plants,
(i)

Adler, Alfred,
(i)
,
(ii)

Aeschylus,
(i)

aesthetics, theory of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

aetites
(pregnant stones),
(i)
,
(ii)

Africa, human evolution in,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

African Americans

census of,
(i)

racism against,
(i)

Tuskegee study of,
(i)

Africans

racism and,
(i)
,
(ii)

study of brains of,
(i)

taxonomy of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Agassiz, Louis,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

and Haeckel,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

at Harvard,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

and von Baer,
(i)
,
(ii)

Agincourt, Battle of (1415),
(i)

Agricola, Georgius,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

airports, scheduling boards of,
(i)
,
(ii)

Alamo,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus),
(i)
,
(ii)

alchemy,
(i)

Alexander VII, Pope,
(i)

alphabetical order,
(i)
,
(ii)

Alvarez, Luis,
(i)

amateurs, use of term,
(i)
,
(ii)

Americans, taxonomy of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

ammonite shells, drawings of,
(i)

analysis, meaning of term,
(i)

Andes Mountains,
(i)
,
(ii)

anesthesia, electricity and magnetism in,
(i)

angels,
(i)
,
(ii)

animation, technical skill in,
(i)

Anselment, R. A.,
(i)

Anthropogenice
(Haeckel),
(i)
,
(ii)

anthropology,
(i)

anti-intellectualism,
(i)

anti-Semitism,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

apes,
(i)
,
(ii)

apple brown betty,
(i)

Aquinas, St. Thomas,
(i)

Archaeopteryx
,
(i)
,
(ii)

Ariadne's thread,
(i)
,
(ii)

Aristotle,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

art

anti-intellectual current in,
(i)

composition on two planes of,
(i)

ennobling capacity of,
(i)

landscape painting,
(i)

as limitation,
(i)

and nature,
(i)
,
(ii)

and science,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

teaching authority of,
(i)

Arthurian mythology,
(i)

artistic license,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

art nouveau,
(i)

Asians, taxonomy of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

astronomy, evolution in,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

atheism,
(i)

Atlanta, Georgia,
(i)

Atlantis,
(i)
,
(ii)

Augustine, Saint,
(i)
,
(ii)

“Aurelian, The” (Nabokov),
(i)

Australian marsupials,
(i)

Aveling, Edward,
(i)

Averroës,
(i)
,
(ii)

Avicenna,
(i)
,
(ii)

 

B
ach, Johann Sebastian,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Bacon, Francis,
(i)
,
(ii)

bacteria,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Baer, Karl Ernst von,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Barker, F.,
(i)

Barzun, Jacques,
(i)

baseball, as metaphor,
(i)

Battle of the Alamo, The
(Proctor),
(i)

Bauer, Georg,
(i)

Bauhin, Caspar,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Bauhin, Jean,
(i)
,
(ii)

Bauhinia bijuga
,
(i)

B. burgdorferi
,
(i)

Beagle
, Darwin's voyage on,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Becher, J. J.,
(i)
,
(ii)

beetles,
(i)

Behe, Michael,
(i)

belemnites, drawings of,
(i)

Berlin, Isaiah,
(i)

bezoar stone,
(i)
,
(ii)

Bible

E (Elohim) vs. J (Yahweh) documents of,
(i)

as fallible document,
(i)
,
(ii)

King James version of,
(i)

literal interpretation of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

and millennium,
(i)

parody of,
(i)

and pre-Adamite man,
(i)

on resurrection,
(i)

sources of,
(i)

and women,
(i)

bibliographies, authors' names in,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

big bang theory,
(i)

binomial nomenclature,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

biography, mini intellectual,
(i)
,
(ii)

biology

embryology in,
(i)

evolutionary,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

political uses of,
(i)

reductionism in,
(i)

biotechnology,
(i)

birds, and dinosaurs,
(i)
,
(ii)

Blake, William,
(i)

blood (sanguine humor),
(i)
,
(ii)

bloodletting,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Blumenbach, J. F.,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Bois, Eugen du,
(i)

Bolivar, Simon,
(i)

Bonaventure, Saint,
(i)

Bonnet, Charles,
(i)

Bonpland, Aimé,
(i)

Borchardt, Rudolf,
(i)

Bork, Robert,
(i)

Bosch, Hieronymus,
(i)

Boston Cecilia,
(i)

Boston Red Sox,
(i)

Bowie, Jim,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Bowler, Peter,
(i)

Boyd, B.,
(i)

Brahe, Tycho,
(i)

brain

comparative studies of,
(i)

pattern recognition by,
(i)

British Communist Party,
(i)

British Museum,
(i)
,
(ii)

Broca, Paul,
(i)

Browne, Sir Thomas,
(i)
,
(ii)

Bruno, Giordano,
(i)

Bryan, William Jennings,
(i)

Bryozoa,
(i)

Buckner, Bill,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Buffon, Baron Georges Leclerc,
(i)

Bugs Bunny,
(i)

Burgess Shale, western Canada,
(i)

Burke, Edmund,
(i)
,
(ii)

Burnet, Rev. Thomas,
(i)

butterflies

artistic depictions of,
(i)

“blues,”
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

labels of,
(i)

Latin names of,
(i)
,
(ii)

literary references to,
(i)
,
(ii)

as metaphor,
(i)

Nabokov and,
(i)
,
(ii)

wing patterns of,
(i)

 

C
adman, Rev. S. Parkes,
(i)

Caesalpinus, Andreas,
(i)
,
(ii)

Cain, mark of,
(i)
,
(ii)

calendars

and millenium,
(i)
,
(ii)

origins of,
(i)

calotte, use of term,
(i)

Cambrian Explosion,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Campanella, Roy,
(i)

Canada, kindness in,
(i)

Carlyle, Jane,
(i)
n

Carney, Art,
(i)

cartography,
(i)
,
(ii)

Casey at the Bat
,
(i)

castration,
(i)

Caucasians, classification of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Caudipteryx
,
(i)

causation, in stories,
(i)

cave paintings of Chauvet,
(i)

C. elegans
roundworm,
(i)

Cenozoic mammals,
(i)

ceraunia
(thunder stones),
(i)
,
(ii)

change, variational vs. transformational,
(i)

Charcot, Jean-Martin,
(i)
,
(ii)

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor,
(i)

Charles VIII, king of France,
(i)
,
(ii)

Chauvet, cave paintings of,
(i)

Chelicerata,
(i)

Chengjiang Formation, China,
(i)

Chesterton, G. K.,
(i)

chimpanzees,
(i)
,
(ii)