Learning, 313—16, 329
May, Robert, 84
brain mechanisms for, 321—23
Maynard Smith, John, 29, 37, 38, 40—41,
Lee Kwan Yew, 311
56, 57, 59, 85, 86, 115, 183
Leigh, Egbert, 93—94, 100
Mead, Margaret, 318, 319, 349
Lekking, 141—42, 146, 147, 149, 158, 159,
Meat-eating, 190
167, 195, 222
Medical Research Council (London),
Levi-Strauss, Claude, 284
123
Lesbians, 182
Meiosis, 29—30, 44, 97, 98, 128
pornography and, 271
cost of, 38
Lienhart, R:, 109
Mendel, Gregor, 3 3
Life-dinner principle, 67
Menstrual cycle, 229
Linkage diseyuilibria, 46—47
Mentality, gender differences in, 247—76
Lions, 195—96, 230, 325
feminism and, 261—63
Lively, Curtis, 51, 81—83
hormones and, 254—58
Local-resource competition model, 118
sexual, 265—72
Locke, John, 317
Mercator, 347
Lorenz, Konrad, 285
Meselson, Matthew, 50,
85
55—56,
Lotka, Alfred, 84
Michaelangelo, 281
Lottery theories, 57—59
Miller, Geoffrey, 337—43
Low, Bobbi, 159—61, 291, 300
Miocene era, 189
Luteinizing hormone, 264
Mitochondria, 100—101, 280
Moir, Anne, 255, 276
Maasai tribe, 148, 243
Molecular biology, 41—45, 50
Macaulay, Lord, 3 3 3
Moller, Anders, 137, 152—5 3, 222—24,
McGuiness, Diane, 257
226—27
Machiavellian hypothesis, 3 33—37
Monkeys
Male-killing genes, 105—8
biased sex ratios in, 117—18
::: 402 :::
I NDEX
Monkeys (cont:)
New Guinea tribes, 3—4, 147, 148
concealed ovulation in, 231
Nordborg, Magnus, 122
mating systems of, 187
Nurture and nature, 6-11, 175, 181,
promiscuity of, 213, 215
252—53, 284—85
sexual selection in, 162
homosexuality and, 265, 279—80
Monogamy, 175—78, 206—7
intelligence and, 316
asymmetry and, 179
beauty and, 303, 305
Oakley, Kenneth, 323
among birds, 22I
Oldowan technology, 324
game theory and, 186
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
::: 403 :::
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
::: 404 :::
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