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
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
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
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
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:
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
