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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, 297 Maternal and Infant Health Care Law 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, 92 Mercer, 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

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