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Onassis, Aristotle, 171

in history, 200, 20I

On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 7, 3 3, 60, modern, 193

134

personality and, 298

Opossums, 116, 117

sexual selection and, I39—40, 145

Opportunistic infections, 103—4

territoriality and, 187

Organelles, 100—I03, 105—8

violence reduced by, 202—3

Orangutans, 215, 231

Set also Marriage

Orgasm, female, 224—26

Monogonont rotifers, 56, 57, 59, 85

Othello (Shakespeare), 236

Montagu, Ashley, 327

Outcrossing, 30, 43, 44

Montezuma, 198

Ovulation, concealed, 229—32

Morality, 315—16

Owls, 232—33

Mormons, 185—86

Oysters, 58

Morris, Desmond, 230

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 6

Paglia, Camille, 263

Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare),

Paramecium, I04

277

Parasites, 66—87

Mukogodo people, 126, 195

altitude and, 79—80

Mulder, Monique Borgehoff, 185

cross-reactivity to, 104

Muller, Hermann, 31—32, 47-49, 62

gender-altering, I09—10

Mutation, 32, 33, 45-50, 79

genetic, 96, 97

of ornamentation,

150

i mmune system and, 74—76

144—45,

outcrossing and, 44

instability and, 83—84

rate of, 63

sexual selection and, 150—52, 155—57,

167

Nash, Odgen, 89, 245

Parthenogenesis, 38, 40

Natural selection, 5, 6, 15, 243, 280

Pastoral societies, 194—95, 212

beauty and, 134

Paul, St:, 241

and competition within species, 34

Peafowl, 133, 135, 136, 139, 140, 149—50,

genetic mixing and, 30

153-54, 157, 164, 165, 178—79

parasitic and, 66

Personality, 298—99

sexual selection and, 20

Phalaropes, 180, 254

Nazism, 319

Pheasants, 140, 295

Nefertiti, 281, 288

Piaget, Jean, 333, 349

Nematodes, 85

Pinker, Steve, 328—29, 332

Neoteny, 327—29, 342—43

Pitcairn Islanders, 202

Nero, 200

Plagues, 65—66

Neural networks, 321

Plasmids, 96

I NDEX

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Platyfish, I62

inheritance and, 239

Playboy, 288, 291

Set also Adultery

Playgirl, 271

Prostitution, 179, 181, 183

Pleistocene period, 193, 207, 251, 252,

war and, 205

254, 262, 266, 273, 288, 300, 322,

Protozoa, 48—49

328—29

Proust, Marcel, 3 3 3

Poggio, Tomaso, 321

Pseudogamy, 38

Polar bears, 18

Psychology, 318—19

Polyandry, 176—77

Puberty, 258, 264

among birds, 222

Polygamy, I I5—16, 119, 173—74, 176,

Race, 13

206, 207, 2I2, 218

sexual selection and, 134

adultery and, 232—35

Racism, 8

ecology and, 192

sexism and, 274—75

gender asymmetry and, 178—81

Rape

in history, 197—202

husbands of victims of, 237

among hunter-gatherers, 228—29

in war, 205

among mammals, 221

Ray, Thomas, 69—70

parasitic and, 151

Reciprocity, 77, 194, I96

serial, 183—86

Recombination, 30, 42—45, 47, 49, 62

sexual selection and, 139

generation length and, 71

size and, 341

Recursion, 328—29

spatial skills and, 247, 250—51

Reptiles, immune system of, 70, 74

variations of, 193

Returning-soldier effect, I22—23

wealth and, I94, 242

Roach fish, 157

Polygamy threshold model, 184—86

Romance novels, 270—72

Polymorphism, 72—73, 76, 84

Rome, ancient, 200—203

Polyploidy,44

Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 101—2, 129, Pomiankowski, Andrew, 97, 152, 153, 166,

I42

I67

Rose, Michael, 95—96

Pope, Alexander, 345

Rotifers, 55—57, 59, 85

Pornography, 266, 270—72

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 315

Potts, Wayne, 76

Royal Society (London), 28

Poultry industry, I24

Rozin, Paul, 302

Power, 173—74, 194—202, 206, 244,

Rubens, Peter Paul, 281, 290

267

Ryan, Michael, 161, 162, 164, 166

inheritance patterns and, 238—43

Predators, 66, 73

Premature death, causes of, 65

San tribe, 10

Primates, set Apes; Monkeys

Scale insects, 80, 97

Primogeniture, 240—42

Scheherazade effect, 3 39—40

Progesterone, 255

Sea horses, 180

Progress

Seals, 18—19

evolution and,

Searcy, William, 165

27, 31, 62—63, 65

relativity of, 18—19

Seduction, 154, 158, 161, 178

Promiscuity, 266

adultery and, 218

homosexual, 181—83

Segregation distorter, 98

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I NDEX

Segregation theory of sex, 47

Socioecology, 187, 190, 192

Seid, Roberta, 287

Sociology, 318, 319

Self-Made Man and His Undoing (Kingdon), Sparrows, 234—35

252

Spatial skills, 247, 250—5I, 257

Sex chromosomes, 99, 110—14, I21—23,

Species, survival of, 32—3 3

264, 279, 280

Sperm competition theory, 213—26, 230,

Sex and Evolution (Williams), 40

231

Sexism, 248, 258—62

Status, see Dominance

racism and, 274—75

Strawberries, 58

Sex ratios, biased, 108, 115—25

Suetonius, 200

Sexual selection,

20—21, 131—69, 280

Sumeria, 199

14,

beauty and, 294—95, 297, 304—5

Sunquist, Mel, 116

competition and, I 3 3, 136

Survival of the fittest, 33

disease-resistance and, 150—52, 155—56

Swallows, 152—53, 21 I, 223—24, 227

fat distribution and, 159—61

Swift, Jonathan, 209—10

female-choice theory of, I 34—42,

Symington, Meg, 117, 118, 120

161—62, 164—66

Symmetry, 152—53

Fisher' s theory of, 142 —46, 152—5 3,

Symons, Donald, 182—83, 191, 232, 253,

162, 164, 166, 167

269, 271—72, 274, 296, 333, 339

Good-genes theory of, I42—43, 145—50,

Syntactic Structures (Chomsky), 321

152—53, 162, 164, 167

honest signals and, 153—59

Tacitus, 200, 202

intelligence and, 3 38—44

Talmud, 120

pluralistic view of, 166—67

Tang Dynasty, 199

sensory bias and, 161—64, 167, 168

Tangled bank theory, 60—63, 65, 81, 86

symmetry and, 152—53

Tannen, Deborah, 253

Shakespeare, William, 4, 10—I I, 129,-277, Tardigrada, 85

333

Taxonomic assumption, 314

Short, Roger, 219, 220

"Temple of Nature, The" (Darwin), 23

Sickle-cell anemia, 72

Terns, 139—40, I44

Silverman, Irwin, 251

Territoriality, 177, 187, 203

Simpson, Wallis, 287, 290

inheritance and, 239

Singh, Dev, 291—92

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardy), 238

Skinner, B: F:, 319, 333, 349

Testicular size, 219—22

Slime-mold, 102

Testosterone, 20, I23, 156, I57, 254—58,

Small, Meredith, 213

264—65

Smith, Adam, 93

Thai people, 244

Smith, Holly, 327

Thinness, 287—91

Smith, Robert, 23I

Thornhill, Nancy Wilmsen, 242, 243, 267,

Smolker, Rachel, 196

284

Smuts, Robert, 289

Thornhill, Randy, 232

Snails, 81—82

Thorpe, William, 287

Social contracts, 3 35

Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll), I, 18, Social Darwinism, 317

64

Social skills, 251, 252

Tiberius, 200

Social status, see Dominance

Tierra, 69

Society, individual in, 11—14

Tiger, Lionel, 17

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