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Grand Unified Theory (GUT)
Grant, Seth
gravity
Graesser, Michael L.
Griffiths, Paul E.
Gross, David
Guth, Alan
Harcourt, Alexander H.
Hauser, Marc D.
Hawking, Stephen
hearing
Helitzer, Florence
helium
hemoglobin
Hirth, F.
history, cultural
history, natural
Holden, Constance
Holderness, Mike
holy
Homo sapiens
Horgan, John
Hoyle, Fred
Hubble, Edwin
Hubble Space Telescope
Human Genome Project
humans: as stardust; at midscale in universe; cosmic dwarfs; embryonic development; inevitable in universe; made in image of God; rational animals; uniqueness, chapter 3
hydrogen
ideas, transmitted mind to mind
idiographic vs. nomothetic
immense, hyperimmense numbers
indeterminacy, quantum
inflation (at big bang)
information; in biology; information age; and computing; proactive genetic; Shannon
intentionality (genetic)
intentionality (mental)
interaction, biological
Internet
inwardness
iron
irritability
isomorphism (in cosmology)
Israel
its from bits
Jacob, Francois
Jaspers, Karl
jellyfish
Jennings, H. S.
Jesus
Johnson, Patricia, J.
Judaism
jugglers
Jupiter
Kagan, Jerome
kaleidoscope
Kauffman, Stuart
Kazazian, Haig H.
Kellermeier, Matthias
Kerner, Berit
Kimura, Mooto
Kirby, Simon
Kirschner, Marc W.
Knoll, Andrew H.
Komarower, Patricia
Kruger, Anne Cale
Kummer, Helmut
Kunz, Werner
Kvenvolden, Keith
Lahn, Bruce
language, human; acquiring second language
LaPlace. See de LaPlace, Pierre Simon, Marquis
Larwood, Gilbert P.
Laughlin, R. B.
law, natural
learning, acquired
LeDoux, Joseph
lens crystallins
Levy, Yaakov
Lewontin, Richard
life, chapter 2; explosion of; improbability of; life and death; second genesis (of life)
Linde, A.D.
lipid bilayers
lithium
Lloyd, Seth
logic
Logos (divine)
Lorenz, Edward N.
love
Lovell, Bernard
Maciá, E. M.
Mackenzie, Dana
magnesium
Maguire, Eleanor A.
mammals
Margulis, Lynn
Mars
mathematics
matter-energy, chapter 1; dark matter
Matsuzawa, Tetsuro
Maynard Smith, John
Mayr, Ernst
McAuliffe, Katherine
Mead, Margaret
Mechelli, Andrea
meerkats
megaverse
meiosiss
Merzenich, Michael
metallicity
metaphysics
meteorite, Murchison
meteorology
microbes
microphysics
mind, chapter 3
mitochondria
monkeys
Monod, Jacques
moon
morality. See ethics
mouse
multicellularity
multiple universes
musicians
narrative; grand
natural selection
Nave, C. R.
Neanderthal humans
neuroscience
neuro-sentience, neurons; evolution of; neuroplasticity
Newton Isaac
Niklas, Karl J.
nitrogen
Noble, Denis
nomothetic vs. idiographic. See idiographic vs. nomothetic
nuclear force, strong, weak
nucleosynthesis
Oberhummer, H. A.
Onuchic, José N.
openness. See also autonomy; freedom; indeterminism
order: cosmological; and determinism; and disorder; genetic; in biology; self-organization
Ordovician Period
organisms
oxygen
Pace, Norman R.
Padian, K.
pain. See also suffering
Pantev, Christo
Paradiso, Michael A.
Pascal, Blaise
Pennisi, Elizabeth
Perelman, Grigori
Penrose, Roger
Permian Period
Perry, D. A.
persons
Perutz, M. F.
Petsko, Gregory A.
phenomenology (of experience)
phospholipids
phosphorus
physics; and biology; and mathematics; micro-physics; stellar physics
Pielou, E. C.
Pilbeam, D.
Pines, David
Planaria
planets. See also Earth
Plato
Platonism
Polkinghorne, John
Popper, Karl
possibility
possibility space
potentialities
Potts, Richard
Povinelli, Daniel
prediction
Premack, David
presence, human, divine
Prigogine, Ilya
primates
procaryotes
progress, in evolution
Protagoras
proteins; in synapses
protozoans
psychology
pulsars
Pythagorean theorem
qualia
quantum events
quantum field theory
quantum foam
quantum mechanics
quarks
quasars
rabbits
radioactivity
randomness
rationality, reason
Ratner, Hilary Horn
rarification fallacy
Rees, Martin J.
Reichart, H.
relativity, theory of
Rendell, Luke
reptiles
resonance states, in stars
Richardson, Tom
Richerson, Peter J.
right and wrong. See ethics
Ringe, Dagmar
Ruse, Michael
sacred
Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.
Saturn
samsara
Scott, Alwyn
sea anemones
self-organization
semantics, sentience
serendipity
Seyfarth, Robert M.
Shapiro, James A.
Signor, Philip W.
silicon, silica
Silk, Joseph
Silurian Period
Simpson, George Gaylord
Singer, Peter
singularities
Sirius Passet formation, Greenland
Skinner
Smolin, Lee
sociology
Socrates
sodium
space, empty
speciation
species packing
spirit
Stanley, Steven M.
starfish, statistics
Stengers, Isabelle
Sterelny, Kim
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stewart, Kelly H.
string theory, superstring theory
Stoeger, William R.
struggle, in natural history
subjectivity, subjective experience. See also experience, felt
sublime
suffering
sulfur
sun
sunyata
supernatural
supernova
surprise
swimbladders, in fish
symbolism, in human language
symmetry-breaking
synapses; postsynaptic membrane
Szathmáry, Eörs
Tattersall, Ian
Taylor, Paul D.
taxi drivers, London
teaching
Tegmark, Max
tectonic plates
telos
Templeton, Christopher N.
temptation
Tertiary Period
theology
theory of everything
theory of mind
Thornton, Alex
Tiffney, Bruce H.
time; atomic clocks; attoseconds; picoseconds; Planck time; time zero
Tipler
Tomasello, Michael
Triassic Period
trial-and-error learning (genetics)
trilobites
Tye, Michael
Tylor, Edward B.
urbilateria
universe: clockwork; early chronology; expanding; fine-tuned; humans at midscale; humans inevitable in; jackpot universe; multiple universes; sequential universes; user-friendly
vacuum
Valentine, James W.
value
Venter, J. Craig
Vermeij, Geerat J.
vertebrates
Vickers-Rich
Vilenkin, Alexander
violin players
Vogel, Gretchen
von Baeyer, Hans Christian
Vonk, Jennifer
Wald, George
water; and life
Ward, Peter D.
Watson, James D.
Weinberg, Steven
Westheimer, F. H., whales
Wheeler, John A.
Whitehead, Hal
Whiten, Andrew
Whitesides, George M.
Whittaker, R. H.
Wiener, Norbert
Wigner, Eugene P.
Wilczek, Frank
wilderness
Williams, George C.
Williams, Robert J. P.
Wilson, Edward O.
Wistow, Graeme
wonder
Wolfram, Stephen
worms; earthworms; flat-worms
Wrangham, Richard W.
yang and yin
Yokey, Hubert P.
Zimmer, Carl
zinc