Bengston, John, 324

Benoiston de Châtauneuf, Louis, 33

Berber

mtDNA, 324

Berezkin, Yuri, 95, 318, 360n3

Berik

kin terms, 223, 224

Bernoulli, Daniel, 63

Bernoulli, Nicolaus, 63

Bertalanffy, Ludwig von, 112

Bienaymé, Irénée-Jules, 33

Big Nambas

kin terms, 291

Biloxi

kin terms, 269

Bimoba

kin terms, 275

Binet, Alfred, 21

biogenetic law, 43, 44

biology, 39–49, 114–120

developmental, 34

evolutionary, 58n2

and linguistics, 45, 76–78, 86–88, 147

Birhor

kin terms, 226

Bisaa

kin terms, 285n20

Blackfoot (Siksika, Kainah, Piegan)

blood groups, 319

kin terms, 269–271, 280, 290, 317, 319

language, 318

Bleek, Dorothea, 253n36

Bleek, Wilhelm H. J., 78, 179n22

Blench, Roger, 354, 361n9, 366

Bloch, Marc, 68

Bloch, Maurice, 181n31

blood groups; see genetics

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 75

Blust, Robert, 266, 335

Boas, Franz, 95, 96, 289

and the linguistic relativity

hypothesis, 96

Boasian anthropology

and diffusionism, 94, 95

Bobo

kin terms, 274

Bochenski, Innocentius, 30

Bodo

kin terms, 218, 222, 250n7, 288

Bongu

kin terms, 236

Bonnot de Condillac, Etienne

Abbé, 12

Boole, George, 25, 26

Bopp, Franz, 7, 83, 149

Borch-Jakobsen, Mikkel, 109, 110

Borneo

languages of, 132

Bororo

kin terms, 247

Bowen, Murray, 112

Boyd, John P., 266

brain, 16–20, 77, 78, 190, 191

see

also phrenology

Brinton, Daniel, 82

British Eugenics Society, 31

Bru

kin terms, 227, 228

Bruno, Giordano, 10

Buang

kin terms, 334

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

Comte de, 39

Bugawac

kin terms, 296n12

Buin

kin terms, 290

Bulgarian

kin terms, 157