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italic
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Aborigines, Australian 27, 144, 341, 342

Académie Française, Paris 101, 121

Académie Royale de Médecine 26, 31

Acanthostega
132–3

ACE (gene) 328

acheiropody
114
, 114–15, 125, 126

achondroplasia 154–6, 155, 157, 161, 167,175, 185

acromegaly 207, 265

Addison, Joseph:
The Battle of the Pygmies and the Cranes
182

adrenal glands 263, 264–5

Afzélius, Bjorn 57–8

ageing 299, 300–4, 313–14; and cells 319–23; disorders 319, 323; and free radicals 314–15, 316–18; mortality rates 329–31; and skin 318–19;
see also
longevity

AIMs
see
Ancestry Informative Markers

Ainu, the 268

Aka, the 183, 186–7

Akadimoo (pygmy) 181, 183

albinism/albinos 14, 245, 250, 251, 252, 253–5, 258, 259–60

Aldrovandi, Ulisse 9, 11;
Monstrorum historia
4, 6, 8, 273

allegory 5–6, 7, 84–5

alopecia
see
baldness

ALS
see
amytrophic lateral sclerosis

Alzheimer’s disease 300, 326–7

American National States Rights Party:
Thunderbolt
article 110

amino acids 89, 158

amytrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) 316

Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs) 339–40

Andaman Islands: negritos 183–4,
184
341,346–7

anencephalic children 51–2

Angela and Amy (conjoined twins) 60

‘anticipation’ 298

apartheid (South Africa) 262–4

apical ectodermal ridges 113, 114, 115–16, 126–7

APOE (apolipoprotein E) gene 300, 326, 327, 328

Aquinas, Thomas 33

aristocracy, British 308–9

Aristotle 9, 10, 241;
The generation of animals 3
2–3, 35;
Historia animalium
199, 282;
On length and shortness of life
307–8

arms 110–11, 112–13, 127–8; missing 111–12, 118–20,
119
, 128

Arnold (Chinese sailor) and his descendants 137–8, 140

aromatase 239–40, 241–2

Artemis Ephesia 290–3,
291

Ashberry, Mary
155

Augustine, St 70

auricles, supernumerary
84
, 84–6, 85

Auschwitz 148–9, 150–2

Ava, Burma 273–6

Bacon, Francis 10, 48;
Novum organum
10–12, 13

Bagydaw, king of Ava 273, 274, 275

baldness 280–4; female 283

Barbin, Herculine (Abel/Alexina) 217–22, 229, 236, 237,238,243

Bateson, William:
Materials… 85
, 86–7, 123

bearded women 238, 239, 268, 283

beauty 348–53, 355–6

Belgian blues (cows) 157

Bell, Alexander Graham 304–5, 306, 309

Beowulf 105

Bhudas 287

Birds: feathers 8, 280; sex chromosomes 231; and teeth 288;
see also
chickens

Birkett, J.: ‘Congenital…auricles on the sides of the neck’ 85

Blafards
251, 253, 258

blastopores 38, 39, 40, 41

Blixen, Karen 17

Boaistuau, Pierre:
Histoires prodigieuses
6, 28, 29

Boas, Franz 243, 342, 343–4