- habitat destruction, 1
- Hadley, George, 1
- Hadley circulation cells, 1, 2, 3, 4 n. 12
- haemoglobin, 1
- hair, 1
- Haines, John, 1
- half-life, 1 n. 2
- hallucinations, 1
- Hamilton, Andy, 1 n. 9
- Hannibal, 1
- haploid, 1
- Hartle, Jim, 1
- Hartley, L. P., 1, 2
- Hartley 1, Comet, 2 n. 3
- Harvard Medical School, 1 n. 8
- Harvard University, 1 n. 13
- harvesting, 1
- Hawaii, 1
- Hawking, Stephen, 1, 2, 3, 4 n. 5
- Hawking radiation, 1, 2 n. 5
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1
- H-bomb, see nuclear bomb
- heart, 1, 2 n. 10
- heart attack, 1
- heart rate, 1
- heat, see energy: heat
- Heat Death, 1
- heat loss, 1
- heavy water see deuterium
- Heidelberg, Germany, 1
- Heisenberg, Werner, 1
- Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, 1 n. 15
- helium, 1, 2, 3, 4 n. 21, 5 n. 6, 6 n. 16
- heroin, 1
- Hertz, Heinrich, 1
- heterosexuality, 1
- Higgs, Peter, 1 n. 5
- Higgs boson, 1
- Higgs field, 1, 2 n. 5
- Higgs mechanism, 1
- Higgs particle, 1
- Himalayas, 1, 2, 3
- hippocampus, see limbic system
- histones, 1 n. 10
- holograms, 1, 2
- hominins, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 n. 2;
- see also australopithecines, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus anamensis, chimpanzees, Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Homo heidelbergensis, human beings, Neanderthals
- Homo erectus, 1, 2, 3, 4;
- migration, 1
- Homo floresiensis, 1
- Homo heidelbergensis, 1
- Homo sapiens, 1
- homosexuality, 1
- Hooke, Robert, 1
- hormones, 1
- horses, 1, 2, 3
- Hoyle, Fred, 1, 2 n. 5
- Hubble, Edwin, 1
- Hulse, Russell, 1
- human beings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16;
- as commodities, 1;
- DNA, 1, 2, 3, 4;
- diseases, 1;
- elites, 1, 2;
- energy use, 1;
- future of, 1;
- heat shedding, 1;
- interaction, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
- interbreeding, 1;
- newborns, 1;
- respiration, 1;
- self-interest, 1;
- specialisation, 1, 2;
- sweating, 1;
- see also brain, human; hominins
- Human Microbiome Project, 1
- hunter-gatherers, 1, 2 n. 2 supra;
- see also gathering
- hunting, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
- see also hunter-gatherers
- hurricanes, 1
- Hutton, James, 1
- Huxley, Aldous, 1;
- Brave New World, 1
- Huxley, Thomas, 1
- hydrogen, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 nn. 2, 3, 4; 9 nn. 6, 11; 10 n. 2, 11 n. 2, 12 n. 21, 13 n. 4, 14 n. 6
- hydrogen bomb, see nuclear bomb
- hyperbola, 1 n. 10
- hypothalamus, see limbic system