The Science of Discworld II

strategies 215–16
    communication
    with babies 154
    cultural evolution 94–5
    digital communications 181–4
    in dog packs 94–5
    early hominids 113
    and evolution of brain 23
    see also language
    Communism 328
    competition, evolutionary 214–15
    complex systems 152–4
    emergence 303, 307
    entropy 190
    evolution and 54, 57
    history 308
    organisms 188
    predictability 165, 305–6
    universe 193–5
    complicated systems 152
    complicity, emergent behaviour 154–5
    computers
    algorithms 183–4
    inability to understand stories 53
    viruses 329
    concepts, defining 235–6
    The Concise Lexicon of the Occult 168
    congenital amusia 274–5
    consciousness
    Cartesian Theatre 266
    qualia 22
    Consciousness Explained (Dennett) 266
    constants, fundamental 28, 30, 48
    constellations 170
    context, art 275
    cooperation, altruism 213–14, 215
    cornea 268
    corporations, identity 96
    cosmology see universe
    counting, combinatorics 48–9
    cowboys 121, 138
    cows 93, 117
    Crawford, Michael 92
    creation myths 247
    creativity, cultural evolution 94, 107
    creodonts, co-evolution 310
    Crick, Francis 185
    Cro-Magnon man 114
    Cubism 265
    cults 222, 344
    culture
    children’s subculture 115
    cultural evolution 89–100
    cultural identity 96–8
    and evolution 89–90
    global multiculture 250
    importance of storytelling 155, 327
    memetics 330
    music 270–1
    Cumulative Audience Paradox 313–14
    cytosine 52
    D
    â€˜Dame à la Capuche’ 275
    dance 265, 269
    dark matter 20
    Darwin, Charles 133, 249
    Davies, Paul 194
    Dawkins, Richard 328, 331
    De Incessu Animalium (Aristotle)241–2
    deafness 154
    Dear, Steven 288
    Dee, John 65, 66, 70, 71, 73, 169
    Deep Throat 304
    definitions, fuzziness 235–6, 330–1
    democracy 98
    Dennett, Daniel 266
    d’Errico, Francesco 131
    Descartes, René 19–20, 76, 77, 266*
    destiny 164–5, 166, 171
    deterministic systems 165, 169, 303–5
    Devil 158
    Diamond, Jared 88
    Diaspora 141
    Dick, Philip K. 312
    dictatorships 98, 311–12
    Dido 46
    digital communications 181–4
    Dinah 139–40
    dinosaurs 312
    The Discworld Companion 207
    Discworld novels
    Carpe Jugulum 341
    The Colour of Magic 166
    Equal Rites 24
    The Fifth Elephant 111–12
    Hogfather 98, 340
    Interesting Times 139–40, 217*
    The Last Continent 135
    The Light Fantastic 139
    Lords and Ladies 43, 96–7, 158, 207, 286, 311–12
    Mort 207
    Pyramids 206, 207, 208
    Reaper Man 205, 207
    Small Gods 136, 139, 207, 208–9, 218–21
    Sourcery 207
    Thief of Time 21*, 302
    The Truth 292
    Wyrd Sisters 323
    diseases 329
    alchemy 67
    parasitic 155
    diversity
    adaptive radiation 133–4
    human 122, 132–3
    divination 66, 168
    DNA 329, 330–1
    Cohen family 141–3
    and evolution 94
    genomes 185–7
    human evolution 88–9
    meaning 188
    mitochondrial DNA 123–4
    phase space 51–4
    polyphyletic species 122
    dogs
    breeds 122, 133
    domestication 117, 118–20
    free will 165
    hunting in packs 94–5
    sense of smell 286
    Dolly the Sheep 31
    domestication of animals 117–21
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 221
    drama 282–3, 333, 340–1
    The Driving Force (Crawford and Marsh) 92
    dryopithecines 108
    duality, Cartesian 20
    dynamical systems
    evolution 308–9
    historical dynamic 301–3, 308, 311–12, 327–8
    phase spaces 43–8, 303–4, 305
    re-running systems 311–12
    E
    ears, hearing 268–9, 270, 273, 290
    Earth, shape of 46
    East Anglia 121–2
    echo-location 287–9
    ecology, biospheres 55, 56–7
    economics
    Law of Supply and Demand 51
    phase space 50–1
    teaching with lies 293
    education 291, 293
    lies-to-children 291, 293
    medieval Europe 69
    â€˜three R’s’ 69
    eggs, scrambling 190, 191, 194
    Egypt, ancient 120, 169
    Eichmann, Adolf 136, 262, 264
    Einstein, Albert 114, 136, 192, 193–4, 249, 262
    electron-volts 29*
    electrons, models of atom 247–8
    Elements (Euclid) 65
    elephants 116, 117
    evolution 110–12, 308–9
    lungs 110*
    Elixir of Life 66–7
    Elizabeth I, Queen of England 65
    embryos 188, 235, 236
    Emerald Tablet 66
    emergent behaviour
    co-evolution 310
    complex systems 303, 307
    complicity 154–5
    evolution 308–10
    historical dynamic 303, 308, 311–12, 327–8
    re-running systems 311–12
    emotions, art and 275
    empathy 285–6, 289
    empiricism 70
    endorphins 275
    energy
    carbon formation 27,