Index 



383 



Myosin, 34 



Myzus persical, 101 



N 



Natrix sipedon, 104 

 Natural selection, 339, 97 



action of, 99 



factors of, 100 



long term results of, 98 



pre-biological, 51 



process of, 97 



theory of, 3 

 Nektonic communities, 232 

 Nematiis, 186 



Neocatolaccits mamezophagus, 215 

 Neodiprion, 185, 249 

 Neptune, 15 



Net-winged midges, 306 

 Neurospora, 67 

 Nickle-iron, 18 

 Nitrogen, 27, 45 

 Nuclear membrane, 54 

 Nucleic acids, 35, 38, 48, 



derivatives of, 44 



precursors of, 47 

 Nucleoprotamine, 40 

 Nucleus, 30, 38, 40 

 Nutrients, 44, 50 



O 



Ocean currents, 306 

 Oceanic ridges, 328 

 Oceans, 25 

 Oligocene, 261, 271 

 Olympic salamander, 174 

 One-per-genus dispersals, 310 

 Operational gene, 70 

 Opheodnjs vernalis vemalis, 158 

 Opius, 225 



Order in organic molecules, 48 

 Ordovician, 57, 263 

 Organization, complexity of, 52 

 Orientation in cells, 48 

 Origin of life, 45, 335, 338 



j Orogenic activities, 329 

 Orthogenesis, see Straight-line selec- 

 tion 

 Oscillations, ecological, 214 



in host density, 215 



population, 127 



random, 129 

 Osmosis, 33 

 Osmtmda, 200 

 Otiorhynchinae, 157 

 Overgrazing, 277, 278 

 Owen, 2 

 Oxygen, 27, 54 



Paleocene, 57, 286 

 Pamakani, 290 

 Parallel evolution, 109 

 Parapylocheles, 245 

 Paratetranychus pilosus, 216 

 Paricutin, 329 

 Parthenogenesis, 83, 198 

 Penicillium, 87 

 Pennsylvanian, 57, 263 

 Peptides, 34 

 Permian, 57, 263 



Peromyscus maniculatus, 150, 166 

 Persistence of lineages, 99 

 Phage, T4, 69 



Phenotypes, selection of, 100 

 Philopotamini, 140 

 Phosphate groups, 38 

 Phosphorescence, 43 

 Phosphoric acid, 46 

 Phosphorus compounds, 35 

 Photosynthesis, 54 

 Photosynthetic pigments, 52 

 Phylogenetic line, 117, 139, 340 

 Pinon pine-juniper biome, 255 

 Pinus, 249 



resinosipites, 261 

 Pipilo, 193 



Planets, origin of, 15, 338 

 Plant diseases, 279 

 Plant evolution, 74 



