Matt Ridley

293 relationship with testosterone levels,

Ruminant Feed Ban (1988), 282 157-60

Rutherford, Ernest, 46 Sulston, J o h n , 246

Supreme Court (American), 290

Sadiman volcano (Tanzania), 32 Sutton, Walter, 45

Salk Institute, 116 Syntactic structures (Noam Chomsky), 92

salmonella, 142 Szilard, Leo, 280

Sanger Centre, 246, 301

Sapir, Edward, 92 Tatum, Edward, 47

Schrodinger, Erwin, 12, 14 Tay-Sachs disease, 191

Science, 111 Three Mile Island, 153

SCID (severe combined immune Tjio, Joe-Hin, 24

deficiency), 249-50 Tooby, John, 102

scrapie, 272-4, 276—7, 279-82 Tredgold, Alfred, 294

Second World War (1939-45), 48, 79, 291 Trivers, Robert, 117-8, 215, 310

sexually antagonistic genes, 107-21 Trousseau, Armand, 67

sexual selection, 4 2 - 7 , 5 2 - 3 , 158-60 Tully, Tim, 224-5

Shannon, Claude, 15, 16 Turing, Alan, 15, 16

Shaw, George Bernard, 292 Turner's syndrome, 216-7

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 171

Shimojo, Shin, 312 uracil, 51

sickening mind, The (Paul Martin), 159 'ur-gene', 18, 196

sickle-cell anaemia, 141

Sigmundson, Keith, 218 Vallejo, Eugenia Martinez, 206

Skinner, B. F., 92 van Helmont, Jan Baptist, 15

Skuse, David, 216-7 Vavilov, Nikolay, 4 7 - 8

SLI (specific language impairment), Venter, Craig, 246

9 7 - 1 0 1 , 106 Verdun, Battle of (1916), 232

Sociobiology (E. O. Wilson), 306 Vogt, Oscar, 47

Southwood committee (1988), 282 von Tschermak, Erich, 44

Spanish Civil War (1936-9), 48

Spearman, Charles, 80 Walker, Alan, 33

Specified Bovine Offals Ban (1989), 282 water babies, The (Charles Kingsley), 29

Spencer, Herbert, 287-8 Watson, James, 13, 14, 48-50, 61, 196, SRY, 110-12 299, 305-6, 308

St Bartholomew's Hospital, 39 Webb, Beatrice, 292

St Hilaire, Etienne Geoffroy, 180 Webb, Sidney, 292

344 GENOME

Wederkind, Claus, 144-5 Wilson, E. O., 306, 310

Wedgwood, Josiah, 294-5, 297 Wilson, Vicky, 132

Weinberg, Robert, 237 Woese, Carl, 20

Wellcome Museum of Medicine, 273 Wohler, Friedrich, 15

Wellcome Trust 246 Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, 54-5

Wells, H. G., 292 Wood report (1929), 296

Werner's syndrome, 203

Wernicke's area, 97, 101 'xeno-transplants', 129

Wexler, Alice, 64 X-rays, 47, 176, 233, 294

Wexler, Milton, 57-8, 64 Xq28, 117, 118

Wexler, Nancy, 6 2 - 3 , 64, 264

Whorf, Benjamin, 92 Yerkes, Robert, 79

Wieschaus, Eric, 176 Young, J. Z., 27