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  1. ‘Enigma’ code,
    1
  2. entropy,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 8,
    4
    nn. 12, 14;
    5
    n. 9
  3. epigenetics,
    1
  4. ‘epoch of last scattering’,
    see
    ‘last scattering, epoch of ’
  5. ESA (European Space Agency),
    1
  6. eukaryotes,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    n. 5;
    5
    n. 10;
    1. cytoskeleton,
      1
  7. eukaryotic cells,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 6;
    1. fusion,
      1
  8. Euphrates river,
    1
  9. Europe,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  10. evaporation,
    1
  11. event horizon,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  12. Everest, Mount,
    1
    n. 12
  13. evolution,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ;
    1. see also
      artificial selection, natural selection
  14. evolution, human,
    1
  15. exchange particle,
    1
  16. exchange rate,
    1
    ,
    2
  17. extinction,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
  18. Everything, Theory of,
    1
    ,
    2
  19. eye,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ;
    1. retina,
      1
  20. eye colour,
    see
    genes
  1. factories,
    1
    ,
    2
  2. Falklands,
    1
  3. far infrared,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 11,
    4
    nn. 3, 4
  4. Faraday, Michael,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 21
  5. Faraday rotation,
    1
    n. 21
  6. farming,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    n. 2
    supra
  7. fascism,
    1
  8. fat,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 9
  9. Federal Reserve Board (US),
    1
  10. Ferguson, Niall,
    1
  11. fermentation,
    1
  12. fermions,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 11,
    4
    n. 15;
    1. spin,
      1
      n. 15
  13. Fertile Crescent,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  14. fertilisation, internal,
    1
  15. feudalism,
    1
  16. Feynman, Richard,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ;
    1. The Feynman Lectures on Physics,
      1
  17. finches,
    1
    ,
    2
  18. fire,
    1
  19. Fischbach, Gerald D.,
    1
  20. Fischer, Irving,
    1
  21. ‘Fish’ code,
    1
  22. Flores, Indonesia,
    1
  23. flu,
    1
  24. flying foxes,
    1
  25. fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging),
    1
  26. food,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    n. 9;
    1. chain,
      1
      ;
    2. and farming,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    3. production,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ;
    4. sponges,
      1
      ;
    5. surplus,
      1
  27. force-carrying particles,
    1
  28. Ford, Henry,
    1
  29. foreign exchange,
    1
  30. forgetting,
    see
    neurons
  31. fossil evidence,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    ,
    12
    n. 6;
    1. see also
      stromatolites
  32. fossil fuels,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ;
    1. see also
      coal, oil
  33. Franklin, Benjamin,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 5
  34. Freud, Sigmund,
    1
    ,
    2
  35. friction,
    1
    ,
    2
  36. Friedman, Milton,
    1
  37. frogs,
    1
  38. fruit flies,
    1
  39. fuel,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 2
  40. fuel cells,
    1
  41. fungi,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    n. 15
  42. fur,
    1
  43. futures market,
    1
  1. GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid),
    1
  2. Galápagos archipelago,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  3. galaxies,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    n. 10,
    8
    n. 1,
    9
    n. 5,
    10
    nn. 14, 15;
    1. ancient,
      1
      ;
    2. clusters,
      1
      ;
    3. distant,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    4. expansion,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    5. formation,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      n. 5,
      5
      n. 1,
      6
      n. 5,
      7
      n. 14;
    6. and gravity,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      n. 10;
    7. as image,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    8. intelligent life,
      1
      ;
    9. light from,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ;
    10. number,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    11. radio emission,
      1
      ;
    12. recession,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    13. spiral,
      1
      n. 15;
    14. see also
      Andromeda Galaxy, black holes, dark matter, jets, Milky Way Galaxy, quasars, stars
  4. Galbraith, John Kenneth,
    1
    ,
    2
  5. Galileo Galilei,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 9
  6. gallium,
    1
  7. games consoles,
    1
  8. gametes,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    1. fusion,
      1
      ,
      2
      n. 15
  9. gamma rays,
    1
    n. 11,
    2
    n. 6
  10. gases,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ;
    1. inter -stellar,
      1
      ;
    2. pressure,
      1
      n. 13
  11. gathering,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
  12. see also
    hunter-gatherers
  13. Gauguin, Paul,
    1
  14. Gaussian distribution,
    1
  15. GDP (Gross Domestic Product),
    1
  16. Geiger, Hans,
    1
    ,
    2
  17. Gell-Mann, Murray,
    1
  18. genes,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    ,
    12
    n. 15;
    1. activation,
      1
      n. 7;
    2. blood group,
      1
      ;
    3. combination,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    4. copying,
      1
      ;
    5. dominant,
      1
      ;
    6. expression,
      1
      ;
    7. eye colour,
      1
      ;
    8. human,
      1
      ;
    9. microbial,
      1
      ;
    10. mutation,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ;
    11. recessive,
      1
      ;
    12. regulatory,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    13. sequence,
      1
      n. 6;
    14. see also
      alleles, diploid, haploid
  19. genetic code,
    1
  20. genetic defects,
    1
  21. genetic engineering,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  22. genetics,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ;
    1. see also
      DNA
  23. Geneva,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  24. genitalia,
    1
    ;
    1. insect,
      1
  25. genius,
    1
    n. 6
  26. genome, human,
    1
  27. geology,
    1
  28. geometry,
    1
    ;
    1. see also
      space–time: warpage
  29. Georgia,
    1
  30. Germany,
    1
  31. Germer, Lester,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 8
  32. Germonpré, Mietje,
    1
    n. 6
  33. gibbons,
    1
  34. Gladstone, William,
    1
  35. glial cells,
    1
    n. 17
  36. Global Positioning Satellites,
    1
    ;
    1. orbit,
      1
  37. global warming,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    n. 1
  38. glucose,
    1
  39. gluon field,
    1
    ,
    2
  40. gluons,
    1
  41. glutamate,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  42. gluteus maximus
    (bottom muscle),
    1
    ,
    2
  43. goats,
    1
  44. Gödel, Kurt,
    1
    n. 4
  45. gold,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ;
    1. as currency,
      1
      ,
      2
  46. Gold, Thomas,
    1
    n. 5
  47. Golgi apparatus,
    1
  48. gonad cells,
    1
    ,
    2
  49. gorillas,
    1
  50. Gould, Stephen Jay,
    1
  51. government,
    1
  52. Grahame, Kenneth,
    1
    n. 2
  53. granite,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 7
  54. gravitational force,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  55. graviton,
    1
    ,
    2
  56. gravity,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    ,
    12
    ,
    13
    ,
    14
    ,
    15
    ,
    16
    ,
    17
    ,
    18
    n. 1
    infra
    ,
    19
    n. 2,
    20
    n. 5,
    21
    n. 21,
    22
    n. 13,
    23
    n. 15,
    24
    n. 18,
    25
    n. 4,
    26
    n. 6
    infra
    ,
    27
    nn. 8, 9, 10;
    28
    n. 12,
    29
    n. 10,
    30
    n. 8,
    31
    n. 11,
    32
    n. 13,
    33
    nn. 14, 15;
    34
    n. 5;
    1. Newton’s theory of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ;
    2. and planets,
      1
      ,
      2
      n. 2,
      3
      n. 17,
      4
      n. 23;
    3. repulsive,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      n. 16,
      4
      n. 11;
    4. universal law of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      n. 3;
    5. see also
      acceleration, galaxies: and gravity, red shift: gravitational, waves: gravitational
  57. Great Eastern
    ,
    1
    n. 4
  58. Greece,
    1
  59. Greeks,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  60. Greene, Graham,
    1
  61. greenhouse gases,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 22,
    4
    n. 1
  62. Greenland,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    1. ice sheet,
      1
  63. Greenspan, Alan,
    1
    ,
    2
  64. guanine,
    1
  65. guns,
    see
    weapons
  66. Guth, Alan,
    1
  67. Gwynne, Peter,
    1

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