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finches, parasitized by cuckoos, 261–62

Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 284, 300

first person POV (point of view), 194

fish, 73

fitness, 64–65, 102, 108, 128, 144

of strategies, 131–32

flounder, 48

fluke, adaptation as, 72

fluorine, 62–63, 63

fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), 23, 103, 153

Fodor, Jerry, 325

folk physics, 167–68

folk psychology, 208, 245, 303–4

predictive weakness of, 210

foresight, nonexistence of, 55, 136, 155, 247

formalism, 305

Foundation series (Asimov), 243

Frank, Robert, 323

Freaky Friday, 221, 224

freedom, deprivation of, 293

free market, 297, 298–99

free rider, 136, 141, 142

free will, 2, 3, 19, 21, 153, 148, 149, 163, 220, 239, 280, 293–94, 311

feeling of, 152

nonexistence of, 236–38

French National Assembly, 172

French Revolution, 5

Freud, Sigmund, 52, 303

Freudian/Marxian structuralism, 307

Friedman, Milton, 267

frog, 73, 196–97

tongue-flicking, 197

frying an egg, 209

fun, 310

function, 251

ubiquitous in human affairs, 254–55

fundamentalism, 3, 5

funding, of scientific research, 240

future, control of, 260–61

Galileo, 22, 80, 168, 169

game theory, defined, 123–24

garlic, smell of, 232

gay marriage, 96

gay rights, 287

gender screening, 287

general relativity, 21, 41, 278

General Theory of Employment, Money and Interest (Keynes), 265

genes, 8, 18, 39, 69, 113, 159, 216–17, 262, 263–64, 281, 286

code, 275

natural selection of, 159

somatic, 181

gene sequencing, 258, 311

gene shuffling, 248

Genesis, 82, 91

genetically encoded trait, see hardwiring

Geneva, Switzerland, 22

geological epochs, 159

geology, 15

geometrical point, 222

germ-line gene therapy, 287, 289

Germany, 29, 143

Gibbs, J. Willard, 31

Gigerenzer, Gerd, 329

giraffes, 81

global warming, 257

gluons, 21

God, 2–3, 17, 37, 40, 45, 82, 89, 96, 99, 100, 244, 275, 276

and Darwinism, incompatibility of, 82–92

nonexistence of, 94, 109

Goldilocks theory, 39–40

Goldwyn, Samuel, 137

good jokes, 106

good news about morality, 115–45

good stories, we are suckers for, 8–14

good, why bother to be, 95

Google, in arms race with Bing, 264

grand illusion, of aboutness, 195–207

grand strategy, 267

grandfathered in, complexity, 81

grass, blade of, 46

gravitational constant, 36, 39

great apes, 103, see also primates

Greek letters, 176, 177

Greek trireme, 167

Greeks, 268

Greene, Brian, 317

Greene, Joshua, 322

grifters, 142

group, 266

competition, 120

fitness, 120

selection, 121

size, 119

grunts, shrieks, gestures, 199, 201

guilt, 140–41, 312

Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond), 273

Habitat for Humanity, 7

Hamlet (Shakespeare), 10, 307

hand washing, 306

hardwiring, 12, 124, 125, 139, 140, 159, 187, 203, 204, 251, 306

Harris, Sam, 330

Haught, John, 321

having a good time, 313

Hawking, Stephen, 318

Hayek, Friedrich, 255, 329

Haynes, J. D., 324

heat, 28–29, 51

history of attempts to understand, 28–29

see also second law of thermodynamics

heat death, of universe, 41, 273, 309

Hegel, George, 244, 304

hegemonic ambitions of scientism, 306

Heidegger, Martin, 231

Heinze, H. J., 324

hell, design problem from, 118

Henrich, Joseph, 323

Henrich, Natalie, 323

Henry V (Shakespeare), 212

heredity, 25

heritable variation in fitness, 54

hermeneutics, 305

heuristics, 269, 270–71

high dudgeon, 143

high-speed trait variation, 264

highly organized systems, biological, 32

hindsight, plenty of, 155

Hindu caste system, 143

hippocampus

human, 183, 185

rat, 185

Hirstein, William, 324

historical novels, 208, 245

historicism, 305

Histories, plays of Shakespeare, 274

histories, written, 214

history, 9, 19, 165, 212, 242–74, 250, 302

blindness of, 267, 271

meaning of, 242

purpose of, 3

History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides), 212, 267

History of the