Appendix A: Primary Sources by Chapter

Full bibliographic information for all sources cited. Organized by chapter number.

Ch. 1 — Planthopper gears. Burrows, M. and Sutton, G.P. Science 341, no. 6151 (2013): 1254–1256.

Ch. 2 — Bacterial flagellum. Behe, M.J. Darwin's Black Box. Free Press, 1996. Berg, H.C. Annual Review of Biochemistry 72 (2003): 19–54.

Ch. 3 — ATP synthase. Boyer, P.D. Annual Review of Biochemistry 66 (1997): 717–749. Nobel Prize Chemistry 1997: nobelprize.org. Noji, H. et al. Nature 386 (1997): 299–302.

Ch. 4 — Kinesin. Vale, R.D. et al. Cell 42, no. 1 (1985): 39–50. Kull, F.J. et al. Nature 380 (1996): 550–555.

Ch. 5 — Blood clotting. Behe, M.J. Darwin's Black Box. Free Press, 1996. Ch. 4.

Ch. 6 — Cilium. Behe, M.J. Darwin's Black Box. Free Press, 1996. Ch. 3. Satir, P. and Christensen, S.T. Annual Review of Physiology 69 (2007): 377–400.

Ch. 7 — Metamorphosis. Truman, J.W. and Riddiford, L.M. Nature 401 (1999): 447–452.

Ch. 8 — Spider silk. Gosline, J.M. et al. Journal of Experimental Biology 202 (1999): 3295–3303. Vollrath, F. and Knight, D.P. Nature 410 (2001): 541–548.

Ch. 9 — Bat echolocation. Neuweiler, G. The Biology of Bats. OUP, 2000. Simmons, J.A. et al. Science 203 (1979): 16–21.

Ch. 10 — DNA as information. Yockey, H.P. Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life. Cambridge, 2005. Dembski, W.A. The Design Inference. Cambridge, 1998.

Ch. 11 — The ribosome. Nobel Prize Chemistry 2009: nobelprize.org. Ramakrishnan, V. Cell 108 (2002): 557–572.

Ch. 12 — Homochirality. Bonner, W.A. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 21 (1991): 59–111.

Ch. 13 — DNA repair. Hoeijmakers, J.H.J. Nature 411 (2001): 366–374. Friedberg, E.C. et al. DNA Repair and Mutagenesis. ASM Press, 2006.

Ch. 14 — Protein sequence space. Axe, D.D. Journal of Molecular Biology 341 (2004): 1295–1315. Meyer, S.C. Signature in the Cell. HarperOne, 2009.

Ch. 15 — Photosynthesis. Engel, G.S. et al. Nature 446 (2007): 782–786.

Ch. 16 — The replisome. Bocanegra, R. et al. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 56, no. 1 (2021). Yeeles, J.T.P. et al. Nature 519 (2015): 431–435.

Ch. 17 — Cosmological constant. Weinberg, S. Reviews of Modern Physics 61, no. 1 (1989): 1–23.

Ch. 18 — Strong nuclear force. Barrow, J.D. and Tipler, F.J. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Clarendon, 1986.

Ch. 19 — Water. Henderson, L.J. The Fitness of the Environment. Macmillan, 1913. Ball, P. Life's Matrix. FSG, 1999.

Ch. 20 — Carbon resonance. Hoyle, F. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 20 (1982): 1–35. Dunbar, D.N.F. et al. Physical Review 92 (1953): 649–650.

Ch. 21 — Electromagnetic force. Rees, M.J. Just Six Numbers. Basic Books, 2000.

Ch. 22 — Proton-electron mass ratio. Barrow and Tipler. Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Clarendon, 1986.

Ch. 23 — Fine structure constant. Barrow, J.D. The Constants of Nature. Vintage, 2003.

Ch. 24 — Flatness problem. Guth, A.H. The Inflationary Universe. Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Ch. 25 — Initial entropy / Penrose. Penrose, R. The Road to Reality. Jonathan Cape, 2004. Ch. 27.

Ch. 26 — Gravitational constant. Rees, M.J. Just Six Numbers. Basic Books, 2000.

Ch. 27 — Neutron-proton mass difference. Borsanyi, S. et al. Science 347, no. 6229 (2015): 1452–1455. Barrow and Tipler, Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Clarendon, 1986.

Ch. 28 — Big Bang. Hubble, E. PNAS 15, no. 3 (1929): 168–173. Lemaître, G. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 47 (1927): 49–59.

Ch. 29 — BGV theorem. Borde, A., Guth, A.H., Vilenkin, A. Physical Review Letters 90, 151301 (2003). Vilenkin, A. Many Worlds in One. Hill and Wang, 2006. p. 176.

Ch. 30 — Cosmic microwave background. Penzias and Wilson. Astrophysical Journal Letters 142 (1965): 419–421. Smoot, G. et al. Astrophysical Journal Letters 396 (1992): L1–L5.

Ch. 31 — Entropy and origins. Hawking and Penrose. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 314 (1970): 529–548. Penrose. Road to Reality. 2004.

Ch. 32 — Miller-Urey. Miller, S.L. Science 117 (1953): 528–529. Thaxton, Bradley, Olsen. Mystery of Life's Origin. 1984.

Ch. 33 — Protein problem. Axe, D.D. Journal of Molecular Biology 341 (2004): 1295–1315. Meyer, S.C. Signature in the Cell. HarperOne, 2009.

Ch. 34 — RNA world. Orgel, L.E. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 39 (2004): 99–123.

Ch. 35 — Information. Yockey, H.P. Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life. Cambridge, 2005.

Ch. 36 — Minimal cell. Hutchison, C.A. et al. Science 351, no. 6280 (2016): aad6253. Glass, J.I. et al. PNAS 103, no. 2 (2006): 425–430.

Ch. 37 — Habitable zone. Kasting, J.F. et al. Icarus 101 (1993): 108–128. Gonzalez and Richards. The Privileged Planet. Regnery, 2004.

Ch. 38 — Jupiter shield. Wetherill, G.W. Astrophysics and Space Science 212 (1994): 23–32.

Ch. 39 — Moon stabilizer. Laskar, J., Joutel, F., Robutel, P. Nature 361 (1993): 615–617.

Ch. 40 — The Sun. Gonzalez and Richards. The Privileged Planet. Regnery, 2004. Ward and Brownlee. Rare Earth. Copernicus, 2000.

Ch. 41 — Galactic address. Gonzalez, G., Brownlee, D., Ward, P. Icarus 152 (2001): 185–200.

Ch. 42 — Earth's magnetic core. Stevenson, D.J. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 208 (2003): 1–11. Nimmo, F. Geology 30, no. 11 (2002): 987–990. Jakosky, B.M. et al. (MAVEN). Science 355 (2017): 1408–1410.

Ch. 43 — Carbon-silicate thermostat. Walker, J.C.G., Hays, P.B., Kasting, J.F. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 86, no. C10 (1981): 9776–9782. Gonzalez and Richards. The Privileged Planet. Ch. 5.

Ch. 44 — The perfect eclipse. Gonzalez and Richards. The Privileged Planet. Regnery, 2004. Ch. 2. Dyson, Eddington, Davidson. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 220 (1920): 291–333.

Ch. 45 — Wigner. Wigner, E.P. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 13, no. 1 (1960): 1–14.

Ch. 46 — Fibonacci. Prusinkiewicz and Lindenmayer. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants. Springer, 1990. Livio, M. The Golden Ratio. Broadway, 2002.

Ch. 47 — Euler's identity. Dunham, W. Euler: The Master of Us All. MAA, 1999. Feynman, R.P. Feynman Lectures Vol. I. Addison-Wesley, 1964.

Ch. 48 — Group theory. Zee, A. Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists. Princeton, 2016.

Ch. 49 — Gödel. Gödel, K. Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik 38 (1931): 173–198. Nagel and Newman. Gödel's Proof. NYU Press, 2001.

Ch. 50 — Prime cicadas. Goles, E. et al. Complexity 6, no. 4 (2001): 33–38. Cox and Carlton. American Midland Naturalist 120, no. 1 (1988): 183–193.