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Kitcher, P., 1985, Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Kodric-Brown, A. and Brown, J. H., 1984, ‘Truth in Advertising: The Kind of Traits Favored by Sexual Selection’, American Naturalist, 124:309–23

Kondrashov, A. S., 1982, ‘Selection against Harmful Mutations in Large Sexual and Asexual Populations’, Genetic Research Cambridge, 40:325–32

—1988, ‘Deleterious Mutations and the Evolution of Sexual Reproduction’, Nature, 336:435–40

Krodrashov, A. S. and Crow, J. F., 1991, ‘Haploidy or Diploidy: Which is Better?’ Nature, 351:314–15

Konner, M., 1982, The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York

Körpimaki, E., 1991, ‘Poor Reproductive Success of Polygynously Mated Female Tengmalm’s Owls: Are Better Options Available?’, Animal Behaviour, 41:37–47

Kramer, B., 1990, ‘Sexual Signals in Electric Fishes’, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 5:247–9

Krause, R. M., 1992, ‘The Origin of Plagues: Old and New’, Science, 257:1073–8

Kurland, J. A., 1979, ‘Matrilines: The Primate Sisterhood and the Human Avunculate’, Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior, ed. N. Chagnon and W. Irons, Duxbury, North Scituate, Massachusetts, pp. 145–80

Ladle, Richard J., 1992, ‘Parasites and Sex: Catching the Red Queen’, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 7:405–8

Lande, R., 1981, ‘Models of Speciation by Sexual Selection on Polygenic Traits’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 78:3721–5

Leakey, R. and Lewin, R., 1992, Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human, Little, Brown, London

Leigh, E. G., 1977, ‘How does Selection Reconcile Individual Advantage with the Good of the Group?’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 74:4542–6

—1990, ‘Fisher, Wright, Haldane and the Resurgence of Darwinism’, Introduction to the Princeton Science Library edition of The Causes of Evolution, J. B. S. Haldane

Le Vay, S., 1992, Born That Way? The Biological Basis of Homosexuality, Channel Four, London

—1993, The Sexual Brain, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts Levin, B. R., 1988, ‘The Evolution of Sex in Bacteria’, The Evolution of Sex, ed. R. E. Michod and B. R. Levin, Sinauer, Sunderland, Massachusetts, pp. 194–211

Levy, S., 1992, Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation, Jonathan Cape, London

Lewin, R., 1984, Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford

Lienhart, R. and Vermelin, H., 1946, Observation d’une famille humaine à descendance exclusivement féminine. Essai d’interprétation de ce phénomène. Comptes rendus de science de la société de biologie de Nancy et de ses filiales de Paris, 140:537–40

Ligon, J. D., Thornhill, R., Zuk, M. and Johnson, K., 1990, ‘Male-male Competition: Ornamentation and the Role of Testosterone in Sexual Selection in Red Junglefowl’, Animal Behaviour, 40:367–73

Lively, C. M., 1987, ‘Evidence from a New Zealand Snail for the Maintenance of Sex by Parasitism’, Nature, 328:519–21

Lively, C. J., Craddock, C. and Vrijenhoek, R. C., 1990, ‘Red Queen Hypothesis Supported by Parasitism in Sexual and Clonal Fish’, Nature, 344:864–6

Low, B. S., 1979, ‘Sexual Selection and Human Ornamentation’, Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior, ed. N. Chagnon and W. Irons, Duxbury, North Scituate, Massachusetts, pp. 462–87

—1990, ‘Marriage Systems and Pathogen Stress in Human Societies’, American Zoologist, 30:325–40

—Alexander, R. D. and Noonan, K. M., 1987, ‘Human Hips, Breasts and Buttocks: Is Fat Deceptive?’, Ethology and Sociobiology, 8:249–57

Maccoby, E. E. and Jacklin, C. N., 1974, The Psychology of Sex Differences, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto

McGuinness, D., 1979, ‘How Schools Discriminate against Boys’, Human Nature, February 1979:82–8

McNeill, W. H., 1976, Plagues and Peoples, Anchor Press/ Doubleday, New York

Malinowski, B., 1927, Sex and Repression in Savage Society, World Press, Cleveland

Marden, J. H., 1992, ‘Newton’s Second Law of Butterflies’,