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  abortion, natural, 87–88, 144

  Adaptation and Natural Selection (Williams), 3

  Agassiz, Louis, 161

  Alberti, Gerd, 135–36

  allometry, genital, 101–3

  amber fossils, 96–97

  Amphidromus snail shell coiling, 177–82, 181

  Anatomical Record journal, 141

  Anderson, Matthew, 141

  Animal Behaviour journal, 53–54, 59