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
Sociobiology (Wilson), 21
Tinbergen, Nikolaas, 286
I NDEX
::: 405
Tooby, John, 77, 83, 1 00, III, 275—76,
War, 203—5
313, 322, 332, 340
Wason test, 334
Toolmaking, 323—26
Wasps, 108
Topminnows, 82—83
Water fleas, 39—40, 47—49
Tragedy of the commons, 91, 127
Way Men Think, The (Hudson and Jacot), Transposons, 96
253
206,
' Trivers, Robert, 115—20, I23—27, 133,
Wealth, 194—202,
244
178, 213, 335—36
beauty and, 289—9I
Trobriand 1slanders, 237
incest taboos and, 284
Trojan War, 205
inheritance of, 238—43
Trollope, Anthony, 3 3 3
ornamentation as sign of, 300
Trumai people, 243
sexual mentality and, 267, 268
Trypanosomes, 75
Weill, Kurt, 245
Turkeys, 108—9
Weismann, August, 8—9, 28,.30—32,
brush, 131—32
86
coalition of males among, 195
Welch, David, 55—56
Turner 's syndrome, 255, 257
Westermarck, Edward, 283—86
Twin studies of homosexuality, 279—80
Whales, 220
White cells, 74
Whiten, Andrew, 335, 336
Udayama, 199
Whole object assumption, 314
United States Department of Agriculture,
Willard, Dan, 115—20, 123, 125—27
121
Williams, George, 35—40, 56—59, 61—63,
University of Michigan, 300
86, 92, 115
Wilmot, John, 307
Vaccination, 74
Wilson, Edward, 2I, 275, 349
Van Valen, Leigh, 63—64
Wilson, Margo, 235—36
Veiga, Jose, 234
Wolfe, Tom, 233, 287. 300, 333
Verbal tasks, 250, 251, 257
Woodpeckers, 196, 230
Vermelin, H:, I09
World War II, 264
Vicar of Bray hypothesis, 31, 36, 47, 50,
Wrangham, Richard,
229
214,
63, 81, 86
Wright, Sewall, 3 5
Violence, 202—6
Wynne Edwards, V: C:, 32, 34—36
gender differences in, 249
jealousy and, 236
X chromosomes, 99, 110— 14,421 —23.
Virgin greenflies, 28, 29
264, 279, 280
Viruses, 71, 94
AIDS, see HIV
Yanomamo tribe, 203—5, 274
artificial, 69
Y chromosomes, 99, 110—14, 12I, I23
fusion and, 104
You Just Don't Understand (Tannen), 25 3
Voles, 247
Youthfulness, 293—95, 342—43
Volterra, Vito, 84
Vrijenhoek, Robert, 82—83
Zahavi, Amotz, 148—49, 154, 157, 164,
Waist-to-hip ratio, 291—93
341
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 27, 135, 143
Zuk, Marlene, 150—510 54, 155, 157
Document Outline
Book Cover
Title page
Contents
Ch. 01: Human Nature
Ch. 02: The Enigma
Ch. 03: The Power Of Parasites
Ch. 04: Genetic Mutiny & Gender
Ch. 05: The Peacock's Tale
Ch. 06: Polygamy & The Nature Of Men
Ch. 07: Monogamy & The Nature Of Woman
Ch. 08: Sexing The Mind
Ch. 09: The Uses Of Beauty
Ch. 10: The Intellectual Chess Game
Epilogue: The Self-Domesticated Ape
Notes
Index