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Brittan, Sam, 308 cloning, 212-3, 255-7

Broca's aphasia, 96, 101 Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, 224, Brock report (1934), 296-7 238, 289

Brock, Sir Laurence, 296 Collins, John, 308

BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), Colossus (computer), 15

59, 281—5 Columbia University, 46

Buck v Bell (1927), 290 'comma-free code', 50

Buck, Carrie, 290 Committee for the Prevention of Jewish Buck, Doris, 290 Genetic Disease, 191, 299

Buck, Emma, 290 Concepcion, Maria, 57

Buck, Vivian, 290 Consilience (Edward Wilson), 310

Buckland, Richard, 132-3 Cookson, William, 72-3

Burt, Cyril, 88 Coppens, Yves, 31

Butler, Samuel, 17 Correns, Carl, 44

Cortisol, 149-56

Caldicott, Dame Fiona, 265 Cosmides, Leda, 102-3

California Institute of Technology, 312 CREB, 224-6, 229, 302

California Supreme Court, 136 Creutzfeldt, Hans, 274

Calment, Jeanne, 203 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), 274—6, Calvin, John, 54, 56 278-80, 284-5

Cambrian explosion, 26, 180-1 Crick, Francis, 13, 14, 4 9 - 5 1 , 61, 138, cancer: 276, 280

breast, 190—1, 236 Culver, Kenneth, 250

D C C suppresses, 244 cyclic AMP, 223-4, 226

TP53 prevents, 233-42 cystic fibrosis, 142 see also Tay-Sachs Capecchi, Mario, 254 -5 disease

Carnegie, Andrew, 289

Carter, Rita, 311 Daily Telegraph, 116

Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca, 188-90 Dalton, John, 43

I N D E X 339

Darwin, Charles, 12, 43, 44—6, 93, 103—4, embryological development, 173-84

157—8, 287, 294, 310 embryonic stem cells, 254-7

Darwin, Erasmus, 12, 22 eugenics, 286—300

Darwin, Leonard, 294 Eugenics Education Society, 292-4

Davenport, Charles, 289 European Union, 151, 284

Davies, Michael, 160 Evolution: the four-billion year war (M.

Davis, Ronald, 226 Majerus, W. Amos, G. Hurst), 109

Dawkins, Richard, 26, 50, 104, 128

DAX, 110 Fabian Society, 292-3

de LaPlace, Pierre-Simon, 311 First World War (1914-18), 38, 79

Delbruck, Max, 13 Fisher, Sir Ronald, 42, 46, 291-2

de Miranda, Juan Carreno, 206 Fleming, Alexander, 2 5 8

Department of Health, 296 Flynn, James, 89-90

de Robertas, Eddie, 177 Focke, W. O., 44

Descartes, Rene, 47, 153 Forensic Science Service, 134

Descent of Man, The (Charles Darwin), 158 Forterre, Patrick, 20

de Silva, Ashanthi, 249 Frankenstein, 219, 251, 252

de Vries, Hugo, 44 Franklin, Rosalind, 13, 14

Diamond, Milton, 218 Freeman, Derek, 92

D N A : free will, 75, 301-13

ageing process and, 203 Freud, Sigmund, 92, 119, 218, 305—6

chimpanzee, 28 Friends of the Earth, 252

discovery of, 12-17 fruit fly, 129, 175—84

fingerprinting, 132-6 Furi, Sandra, 144-5

function of, 7 - 9