Genome - Matt Ridley

Eli Lilly, 168 Gladstone, Herbert, 293

Ellis, Havelock, 292 Goddard, H. H., 78, 79, 289

Epstein-Barr virus, 241Gopnik, Myrna, 98-100

3 4 0 G E N O M E

Gould, Stephen Jay, 88, 306 Human Genome Project, 5, 145, 246

Great Ormond Street Hospital, 39 Hume, David, 309

Greenberg, Joseph, 187 Hume's fork, 301, 309

Greenpeace, 252 Huntington's chorea, 55-66, 75, 241, 264,Greider, Carol, 197 280

Grotewiel, Michael, 226 Huntington, George, 56

Gusella, Jim, 58 Huxley, Aldous, 303-4

Guthrie, Woody, 56, 57 Huxley, Julian, 292

Guy's Hospital, 60 Huxley, Thomas Henry, 29, 43

H-Y antigens, 119-21

Hadlow, Bill, 273-4

Haeckel, Ernst, 182, 288-9 ICE (interlocus contest evolution), 109,Haig, David, 3, 114, 209-11 116

Haldane, J. B. S., 146, 201, 292, 297 Identigene, 134

Hall, Peter, 235 IGF2R, 77, 87, 210

Hamer, Dean, 116, 117-8, 163-5, 1 68Illich-Svitych, Vladislav, 187

Hamilton, W. D., 120, 146 Immigration Restriction Act 1924

Harley, Cal, 199 (American), 79, 289-90

Harris, Henry, 235 infectious disease, 272—85

Harris, Judith Rich, 305-7 Ingram, Tony, 311

Harwood, John, 112 Institute of Child Health, 98, 216

Hayes, Brian, 51 intelligence:

heart disease: ape, 29-30, 33

effects of A P O E activity on causes of,contested relationship with IGF2R,77, 259-61 87

MrFit trial, 169-70 effects of SLI on, 100-01

relation of cholesterol levels with, inheritance of, 76-77, 84-90

148-50, 155 testing, 77-90

relation of Cortisol levels with, 154—6 International Brigade, 48

relation of testosterone levels with, International Eugenics Conference 159-60 (London, 1912), 293

Heisenberg, Werner Karl, 311 Iwasa, Yoh, 215—6

Hill, Adrian, 142

Hiroshima bombing, 233, 280 Jakob, Alfons, 275

Hitler, Adolf, 47 James, Henry, 93

H I V (human immunodeficiency virus), James, William, 93, 102, 10; 265 Janacek, Leos, 42

Holland, Brett, 114-6 Jansky's nomenclature, 137

Holmes, Justice Oliver Wendell, 290 Jayakar, Suresh, 146

homeobox, 177 Jefferson, Thomas, 134

H o m e Office forensic laboratory, 133 Jeffreys, Alec, 132-3

Hox genes, 177—81, 183, 184 Jenkin, Fleeming, 43

'human endogenous retroviruses' (Hervs), Jenner, Edward, 258

125 Johanson, Donald, 33

I N D E X 341

John-Paul II, Pope, 24 Luca (Last Universal Common Ancestor), Jones, Sir William, 186 19-22, 25, 26, 198

'jumping genes', 129—30 Luria, Salvador, 48

Lysenko, Trofim, 47

Kagan, Jerome, 166

Kamin, Leon, 307 'mad cow disease' see BSE

Kandel, Eric, 223-4 Maddox, John, 178, 266

Kaplan, Jay, 170 Maimonides, 71

Kelly, Ian, 133 Man and superman (George Bernard Shaw),Keynes, J. M., 292 292

K family, 9 8 - 9 Mangiarini, Laura, 60

Kimura, Motoo, 139 Mann, Lynda, 132-3

Kingsley, Charles, 29 Mao, Xin, 300

Kitcher, Philip, 298 Mappingfate (A. Wexler), 64

Klitzman, Robert, 274 Marsh, David, 73

Kuntz, Maurice, 248 Martin, Paul, 159-60

Marx, Karl, 47, 92

Labour Party (British), 292, 294, 297Maternal and Infant Health CareLaw Lacks, Henrietta, 204 (Chinese), 299

lactase, 192—4 Matthaei, Johann, 51

Laetoli footprints, 32 May, Robert, 146

Lake Maracaibo study, 57-8, 62 McClintock, Barbara, 128

'La Monstrua desnuda' (Juan Carreno de McGuire, Michael, 171

Miranda), 206 McKenna, Reginald, 294, 295

'La Monstrua vestida' (Juan Carreno de M E , 152

Miranda), 206 Mead, Margaret, 92, 297, 306

Lander, Eric, 264 Medawar, Peter, 201

Landsteiner, Karl, 137 memory:

Lane, David, 23; effects of CREB activity on, 224-6

language: long-term potentiation as key to,

as an instinct, 9 2 - 7 , 102-6 227-30

common ancestry of, 185—90 Mendel, Anton, 41

specific language impairment (SLI), Mendel, Gregor, 39-44, 4 7 - 8 , 52-3, 97—101, 106 65—6, 207, 289, 291—2

Laski, Harold, 292 Mengele, Josef, 14, 134

Leakey, Richard, 33 Mental Deficiency Bill (1912), 294

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 47, 92Mercer, Joe, 266

Levan, Albert, 24 Mest gene, 215

LeVay, Simon, 116 'Methuselah' flies, 204

Levi, Primo, 4 MHC, 144-5

Lewinsky, Monica, 134 microsatellites, 124

Lewontin, Richard, 164, 306, 307 Microsoft, 181, 244

Lorentz (encoding machine), 15 Miescher, Friedrich, 48

Lowe, Scott, 238, 239 Mingzhang, Chen, 299

342 G E N O M E

minisatellites: Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich, 223, 304

Alu, 126—7, 129—31 Pearson, Karl, 288—9, 291, 293,297,300

definition of, 124 P E G - A D A , 249-50

discovery of, 131-4 P element, 129—30

L I N E - 1 , 125-27, 129-31 personality:

Mobley, Stephen, 308 effects of dopamine levels on, 161-6

Money, John, 218 effects of serotonin levels on, 167-72

Monsanto, 2 5 2 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 4 5 - 6 108

Moss's nomenclature, 137 Philpott, Mark, 82

Muller, Hermann Joe, 4 6 - 8 , 49, 119, 176 Pinker, Steven, 94, 102-3, 310

Pioneer, 253—4

Nageli, Karl-Wilhelm, 44 Pitchfork, Colin, 133-4

Nariokotome skeleton, 33 pleiotropy, 66-75

National Geographic, 113 Plomin, Robert, 77, 87—8, 163

Nature, 178 Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 24

Nazi party, 291, 297 Prader-Willi syndrome:

Negrette, Americo, 57 causes of, 213—4

Neisser, Ulric, 90 identification of, 206-8

neurodegenerative disease, 54-65 Prado Museum, 206

New York Times, 191 prion genes, 278-81, 284-5

News Chronicle, 50 pronuclei, 208

Newton, Sir Issac, 16, 311 Prozac, 92, 168

Niemann-Pick disease, 54 PRP, 272, 277-8

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 289 Prusiner, Stanley, 276—9

Nirenberg, Marshall, 51 pseudogenes, 126—35

Nixon, Richard, 233 Punch, 29

Nobel prize, 13, 46, 48, 128, 234, 240,

271, 277 Radnor, Earl of, 293

Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 264-5 Reagan, Ronald, 264

Nusslein-Volhard, Jani, 176 Recombinant D N A Advisory Committee, 248

Occam's razor, 21 Rice, William, 113-6

origin of life, n - 2 6 Rift Valley, 30, 32

Osier, William, 38 RNA:

otx genes, 180 discovery of, 18—19

Owen, Sir Richard, 29 function of, 7—9, 16

relationship with D N A , 17-18

Painter, Theophilus, 23 transfer, 50

Paisley, Bill, 266 Robinson, W. J., 290

Paley, William, 104 Roman Catholic Church, 291, 297

Parkinson's disease, 162, 266 Roosevelt, Theodore, 289

Parry, James, 273 Rose, Michael, 203-4

Pauling, Linus, 47 Rose, Steven, 307

I N D E X 343

Rosenberg, Steven, 248 Sternberg, Robert, 80

Roundish Flat Worm (RFW), 181, 186 Stewart, Gershom, 294

Roundup, 252—3 stress:

Rous, Peyton, 234 as a cause of heart disease, 147—57

Royal Asiatic Society, 186 causes fall in levels of high-density Royal Commission on the care and lipoprotein, 154

control of the feeble-minded (1908), causes rise in levels of Cortisol, 149-52

293 relationship with testosterone levels,

Ruminant Feed Ban (1988), 282 157-60

Rutherford, Ernest, 46 Sulston, J o h n , 246

Supreme Court (American), 290

Sadiman volcano (Tanzania), 32 Sutton, Walter, 45

Salk Institute, 116 Syntactic structures (Noam Chomsky), 92

salmonella, 142 Szilard, Leo, 280

Sanger Centre, 246, 301

Sapir, Edward, 92 Tatum, Edward, 47

Schrodinger, Erwin, 12, 14 Tay-Sachs disease, 191

Science, 111 Three Mile Island, 153