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PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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INDEX

Abraham
124
,
125

accidents
121–2
,
184
,
187
,
225
,
231
,
259
,
279–80

Adam
40–41
,
42
,
127

Africa, African
27–8
,
33–4
,
45
,
49
,
79
,
88
,
152
,
169

age
7
,
88
,
201
,
217
,
228
,
253
,
278
,
280–81

albinism
57
,
64–5

Alcibiades
13–14

alcoholism
9
,
213

allele
220–23
,
234–9

alphabet
101
,
148
,
152
,
154
,
156

Altamira
166

ambidextrousness
80–82
,
84
,
167

America, American
27
,
54
,
62
,
88
,
140
,
213
,
251
,
255
,
277–81
,
284

Anaxagoras
49

angel
41
,
116
,
127

Angola
28

animals
16
,
53
,
56
,
79
,
99–100
,
110–14
,
222–3
,
224
,
229

animal experimentation
55
,
175–6
,
185
,
199–202
animals in superstition
38–9
,
42
,
44

Annett, Marian
217
,
223–5
,
234

anticlockwise
45
,
60
,
258
see also
clockwise

apes
55
,
79–80
,
100
,
113
,
117
,
169–70
,
200

aphasia
187–8

Aphrodite
261

Apuleius
48

Arabia Felix
25
,
26

Arabia, Arab world
20–21
,
23
,
25–6
,
122
,
150–52
,
156
,
157

Arabic
25
,
150–52
,
152,
154

archer
30–31
,
30

Aristotle
19
,
159
,
175
,
177

arithmetic
103
,
144
,
183
,
188
,
191
,
194
,
247

army
30–31
,
34
,
39
,
77–8
,
94
,
211

Ashanti
81

asthma
9
,
213

asymmetry
96
,
100–2
,
105
,
168
,
201
,
203–9
,
245–6

Atalanta
118
,
118–19

Atatürk
154

Augustine
36

Australopithecus africanus
166–8

Austria, Austrian
54
,
91
,
107
,
140
,
218

autoimmune disease
213
,
231–2

babies
102
,
136
,
138
,
139,
140
,
145
,
173–4
,
210
,
217
,
221

baby clothes
18

baboon skulls
166–7
,
168

Baburen, Dirck van
128
,
130
,
133

Baden-Powell, Lord
81

Baillie, Matthew
161

ballroom dancing
258

Bantu
45
,
49

baseball
203
,
277
,
284

Baskerville, Rachel
201

beauty
96
,
143

bedwetting
268

behaviourism
162–5

Benjamin, Benjamite
34
,
77

Bible
34

Biervliet, Jules van
86

birds
43–4
,
100
,
112–14
,
181
,
200
,
235–7

bisexuality
240
,
253

Black Death
66

black magic
42
,
60

Blau, Abram
9
,
159
,
162–5
,
213
,
252
,

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