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Index
Page references in italic refer to illustrations)
Aborigines, Australian 27, 144, 341, 342
Académie Française, Paris 101, 121
Académie Royale de Médecine 26, 31
Acanthostega 132–3
ACE (gene) 328
acheiropody 114, 114–15, 125, 126
achondroplasia 154–6, 155, 157, 161, 167,175, 185
acromegaly 207, 265
Addison, Joseph: The Battle of the Pygmies and the Cranes 182