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Appendix 1 - Glossary
Technical Terms
From The Concise Oxford Dictionary (Pearsall 2002).
Chicken-and-egg Denoting a situation in which each of two things appear to be necessary to the other. [from the question 'What came first, the chicken or the egg?']
Cytoplasm Biology The material or protoplasm within a living cell, excluding the nucleus.
Gene Biology A unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring in particular a distinct sequence of DNA forming part of a chromosome.
Morphology The branch of biology concerned with the forms and structures of living organisms.
Nanotechnology Technology on an atomic or molecular scale, concerned with dimensions of less than 100 nanometers.
Palaeontology The branch of science concerned with fossil animals and plants.
Recombination Genetics The arrangement of genetic material, especially by crossing over in chromosomes or by the artificial joining of DNA segments.
Sanskrit words
From the Bhagavad-gitä As It Is (Prabhupäda 1989, 875-882).
Guëas The three "modes," or qualities of the material world (goodness, passion, and ignorance).
Karma Material activities, for which one incurs subsequent reactions.
Vedas The four original scriptures (Åg, Säma, Atharva, and Yajur).
Appendix 2 - Sanskrit Pronunciation Guide
The Sanskrit words are I have used conform to the official Sanskrit transliteration rules used by Prabhupäda (1989, 884-885) in his Bhagavad-gitä As It is.
The vowels are pronounced as follows:
a - as in but ÿ - as in lree
ä - as in far but held twice as long as a o - as in go
ai - as in aisle å - as in rim
au - as in how è - as in reed but held twice as long as å
e - as in they u - as in push
i - as in pin ü - as in rule but held twice as long as u
é - as in pique but held twice as long as i
The consonants are pronounced as follows:
Guttarals Labials
(pronounced from the throat) (pronounced with the lips)
k - as in kite p - as in pine
kh - as in Eckhart ph - as in up-hill (not f)
g - as in give b - as in bird
gh - as in dig-hard bh - as in rub-hard
ë - as in sing m - as in mother
Cerebrals Palatals
(pronounced with up of the tongue against the root of mouth)
(pronounced with middle of tongue against palate)
ö - as in tub c - as in chair
öh - as in light-heart ch - as in staunch-heart
ò - as in dove j - as in joy
òh - as in red-hot jh - as in hedge-hog
ë - as in sing ï - as in canyon
Dentals Semivowels
y - as in yes (pronounced as celebrals but with tongue against teeth
r - as in run
t - as in tub l - as in light
th - as in light-heart
d - as in dove
dh - as in red-hot
v - as in vine, except when preceded in
the same syllable by a consonant, then
like in swan
n - as in nut
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Aspirate Sibilants
h - as in home ç - as in the German word sprechen
ñ - as in shine
Anusvära s - as in sun
m - a resonant nasal sound like in the
French word bon Visarga
ù - as final h-sound: aù is pronounced like
aha; iù like ihi
There is no strong accentuation of syllables in Sanskrit, or pausing between words in a line, only a flowing of short and long (twice as long as the short) syllables. A long syllable is one whose vowel is long (ä, ai, au, e, é, o, è, ü) or whose short vowel is followed by more than one consonant (including ù and à). Aspirated consonants (consonants followed by an h) count as single consonants.
Appendix 3 - Fossil Evidence
Figure 1 - The Fossil Record
(Britannica 2002, evolution theory, evidence, 22 Figure 2 - The Evolution of the Human Brain Size)
(Britannica 2002, human evolution, topics, graphs, cranial)