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  1. habitat destruction,
    1
  2. Hadley, George,
    1
  3. Hadley circulation cells,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    n. 12
  4. haemoglobin,
    1
  5. hair,
    1
  6. Haines, John,
    1
  7. half-life,
    1
    n. 2
  8. hallucinations,
    1
  9. Hamilton, Andy,
    1
    n. 9
  10. Hannibal,
    1
  11. haploid,
    1
  12. Hartle, Jim,
    1
  13. Hartley, L. P.,
    1
    ,
    2
  14. Hartley
    1
    , Comet,
    2
    n. 3
  15. Harvard Medical School,
    1
    n. 8
  16. Harvard University,
    1
    n. 13
  17. harvesting,
    1
  18. Hawaii,
    1
  19. Hawking, Stephen,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    n. 5
  20. Hawking radiation,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 5
  21. Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
    1
  22. H-bomb,
    see
    nuclear bomb
  23. heart,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 10
  24. heart attack,
    1
  25. heart rate,
    1
  26. heat,
    see
    energy: heat
  27. Heat Death,
    1
  28. heat loss,
    1
  29. heavy water
    see
    deuterium
  30. Heidelberg, Germany,
    1
  31. Heisenberg, Werner,
    1
  32. Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle,
    1
    n. 15
  33. helium,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    n. 21,
    5
    n. 6,
    6
    n. 16
  34. heroin,
    1
  35. Hertz, Heinrich,
    1
  36. heterosexuality,
    1
  37. Higgs, Peter,
    1
    n. 5
  38. Higgs boson,
    1
  39. Higgs field,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 5
  40. Higgs mechanism,
    1
  41. Higgs particle,
    1
  42. Himalayas,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  43. hippocampus,
    see
    limbic system
  44. histones,
    1
    n. 10
  45. holograms,
    1
    ,
    2
  46. hominins,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    n. 2;
    1. see also australopithecines, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus anamensis, chimpanzees, Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Homo heidelbergensis,
      human beings, Neanderthals
  47. Homo erectus
    ,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ;
    1. migration,
      1
  48. Homo floresiensis
    ,
    1
  49. Homo heidelbergensis
    ,
    1
  50. Homo sapiens
    ,
    1
  51. homosexuality,
    1
  52. Hooke, Robert,
    1
  53. hormones,
    1
  54. horses,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  55. Hoyle, Fred,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 5
  56. Hubble, Edwin,
    1
  57. Hulse, Russell,
    1
  58. human beings,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    ,
    12
    ,
    13
    ,
    14
    ,
    15
    ,
    16
    ;
    1. as commodities,
      1
      ;
    2. DNA,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ;
    3. diseases,
      1
      ;
    4. elites,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    5. energy use,
      1
      ;
    6. future of,
      1
      ;
    7. heat shedding,
      1
      ;
    8. interaction,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ;
    9. interbreeding,
      1
      ;
    10. newborns,
      1
      ;
    11. respiration,
      1
      ;
    12. self-interest,
      1
      ;
    13. specialisation,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    14. sweating,
      1
      ;
    15. see also
      brain, human; hominins
  59. Human Microbiome Project,
    1
  60. hunter-gatherers,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 2
    supra
    ;
    1. see also
      gathering
  61. hunting,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ;
    1. see also
      hunter-gatherers
  62. hurricanes,
    1
  63. Hutton, James,
    1
  64. Huxley, Aldous,
    1
    ;
    1. Brave New World
      ,
      1
  65. Huxley, Thomas,
    1
  66. hydrogen,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    nn. 2, 3, 4;
    9
    nn. 6, 11;
    10
    n. 2,
    11
    n. 2,
    12
    n. 21,
    13
    n. 4,
    14
    n. 6
  67. hydrogen bomb,
    see
    nuclear bomb
  68. hyperbola,
    1
    n. 10
  69. hypothalamus,
    see
    limbic system
  1. Iberian peninsula,
    1
  2. IBM,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 3
  3. ice,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 3
  4. ice, fresh-water,
    1
  5. ice ages,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    n. 22,
    8
    n. 8;
    1. see also
      Snowball Earths
  6. ice caps,
    1
  7. ice skating,
    1
  8. Iceland,
    1
  9. identity, personal,
    1
    ,
    2
  10. imagination,
    1
  11. immigration,
    1
  12. immunity,
    1
    ,
    2
  13. import tariffs,
    1
  14. incandescence,
    1
  15. Incas,
    1
  16. incompleteness theorem,
    1
    n. 4
  17. India,
    1
  18. Indonesia,
    1
  19. industrial revolution,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  20. infinity,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 10
  21. inflation,
    1
  22. information,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    ,
    12
    ,
    13
    ,
    14
    ,
    15
    n. 4,
    16
    n. 8,
    17
    n. 14,
    18
    n. 5,
    19
    n. 14,
    20
    n. 5
  23. information storage,
    1
  24. InfoWorld
    ,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 14
  25. inheritance,
    1
    ,
    2
  26. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
    1
  27. insulation,
    see
    electricity: insulation
  28. Intel,
    1
    ,
    2
  29. intelligence, extraterrestrial,
    1
  30. interbreeding,
    1
  31. interglacial periods,
    1
  32. internet,
    1
  33. ion channels,
    1
  34. ions,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 6
  35. Iraq,
    1
  36. iron,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  37. iron oxide,
    1
  38. isotopes,
    1
    n. 3
  39. It’s Only a Theory
    ,
    1
    n. 9
  1. Jacob, François,
    1
  2. Japan,
    1
    n. 7
  3. Jarman, Derek,
    1
  4. Java,
    1
  5. jet stream,
    1
  6. jets, cosmic,
    1
    ,
    2
  7. John Innes Centre and the Institute of Food Research,
    1
    n. 9
  8. Johnson, George,
    1
  9. Jones, Steve,
    1
  10. Jones, Terry,
    1
    n. 16
  11. Jupiter,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 2,
    3
    n. 18;
    1. belts,
      1
      ;
    2. rotation,
      1
      ;
    3. zones,
      1
  1. Kalahari desert,
    1
  2. Kellogg, William,
    1
  3. Kelvin, William Thompson, Lord,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 4
  4. Kelvin scale,
    1
    n. 10
  5. Kennedy, Jackie,
    1
  6. Kepler, Johann,
    1
  7. Keynes, John Maynard,
    1
  8. Khufu, Pharaoh,
    1
  9. King, Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace,
    1
    n. 3
  10. Kourou, French Guyana,
    1
  11. Krebs cycle,
    1
    ,
    2
  12. Kuiper Belt,
    1
    n. 2
  1. labour,
    1
  2. lactic acid,
    1
  3. Laetoli, Tanzania,
    1
    ,
    2
  4. lakes,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 2
  5. land,
    1
  6. Landau, Lev,
    1
  7. Lane, Nick,
    1
  8. language,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  9. Large Hadron Collider,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  10. Larkin, Philip,
    1
  11. laser interferometer,
    1
  12. lasers,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  13. ‘last scattering, epoch of ’,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 2,
    3
    n. 10,
    4
    n. 8,
    5
    n. 14
  14. latitude,
    1
    n. 11
  15. lava,
    1
    ,
    2
  16. Lavoisier, Antoine,
    1
  17. lead,
    1
    ,
    2
  18. Leakey, Louis,
    1
  19. Leakey, Mary,
    1
  20. learning,
    see
    neurons
  21. Leeson, Nick,
    1
  22. Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van,
    1
    ,
    2
  23. Leibniz, Gottfried,
    1
  24. Lemaître, George,
    1
  25. leptons,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ;
    1. indistinguishability,
      1
  26. Lessing, Doris,
    1
  27. Lewis, Gilbert Newton,
    1
  28. LHB (Late Heavy Bombardment),
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 2
  29. light,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    n. 21,
    10
    n. 14,
    11
    n. 2;
    1. bending,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ;
    2. and black holes,
      1
      n. 4;
    3. blue,
      1
      ;
    4. diffraction,
      1
      ;
    5. interference,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    6. laser,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    7. and matter,
      1
      ;
    8. oscillation,
      1
      ;
    9. as particles,
      1
      ,
      2
      n. 4;
    10. red,
      1
      ;
    11. reflection,
      1
      ;
    12. speed of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
      ,
      9
      ,
      10
      ,
      11
      ,
      12
      n. 1,
      13
      n. 9;
    13. theory of,
      1
      ;
    14. transmission,
      1
      ;
    15. visible,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      n. 11;
    16. as waves,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      n. 21,
      6
      n. 4;
    17. see also
      energy: light, lasers, light horizon, photons, red shift, ultraviolet light, wavelength, X-rays
  30. light bulbs,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    n. 8
  31. light horizon,
    1
  32. lightning,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    nn. 6, 7;
    7
    n. 18,
    8
    n. 19
  33. LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory),
    1
  34. limbic system,
    1
    ;
  35. amygdala,
    1
    ;
    1. hippocampus,
      1
      ;
    2. hypothalamus,
      1
  36. lipids (fatty acids),
    1
  37. liquids,
    1
  38. literacy,
    1
  39. lithium,
    1
    ,
    2
  40. liver,
    1
  41. liver cells,
    1
  42. Livio, Mario,
    1
    n. 23
  43. llamas,
    1
  44. Llinás, Rodolfo R.,
    1
  45. location,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    n. 6,
    7
    n. 3,
    8
    n. 5;
    1. dual,
      1
  46. logic gate,
    see
    computers
  47. Lorentz contraction,
    1
  48. Lorenz, Edward,
    1
  49. Los Angeles,
    1
  50. Lovelock, James,
    1
  51. LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide),
    1
  52. LUCA (last universal common ancestor),
    1
  53. lungs,
    1
  54. Luther, Martin,
    1
  55. lysosomes,
    1

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