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Index

Abortion, sex-selective, 117, 122

Aché people, 185, 220

Acheulian technology, 314

Adaptation and Natural Selection (Williams), 35

Adapted Mind, The (Barkow, Cosmides, and Tooby), 303

Adrenogenital syndrome, 247

Adultery, 170, 187, 195, 210–36

among birds, 213–16, 219

concealed ovulation and, 222–4

among hunter-gatherers, 220–21

inheritance patterns and, 230–35

jealousy and, 227–30

orgasm effect and, 216–19

polygamy and, 224–7

testicular size and, 211–14

violence and, 196–7

Aeschylus, 197

Affirmative action, 254–5

African Queen, The (film), 199

Aggression, 306–7

gender differences in, 242, 244

Agriculture, 187–8

AIDS, 68, 72, 73, 99, 175

Aka pygmies, 187

Akhenaten, 191, 273

Albatrosses, 177

Alexander, Richard, 319–20, 322

Alliance theory, 276

Altitude, 76–7

Altmann, Jeanne, 113

Altruism, 34–6,

74 reciprocal, 187, 189

Anaxagoras, 115

Anderson, Roy, 81

Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 10–11

Anthropology, 4, 266, 307, 308

Antibiotics, 68

Antibodies, 71, 72

Antigens, 72

Apes

exogamy of, 182–3

gender differences in behavior of, 242

mating systems of, 170, 180–81, 205–9

violence among, 195–6 See also Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Gorillas; Orang-utans

Aphids, 55, 57

Aquinas, Thomas, 6

Aristotle, 115

Arms race analogies, 65–8, 69

Artificial intelligence, 310

Artificial life, 66–7, 75

Assortative mating pattern, 296

Attractiveness, see Beauty

Augustus, 193

Austad, Steven, 111

Austen, Jane, 296, 322

Australian aborigines, 186, 221

Australopithecus afarensis, 183, 300–301, 316–17

Automixis, 37

Aztecs, 191

Baboons, intelligence of, 324–6

Babylon, 191, 199

Bacteria, 63–4, 68, 69, 90–91

antibiotics and, 68

descendants of, 96

fusion and, 98–9, 99–100

male-killing genes in, 103

Badcock, Christopher, 331

Baker, Robin, 216–18

Baldwin, James Mark, 244

Baldwin effect, 312

Bamboo, 77–8

Bangladesh, 198

Barlow, Horace, 321

Basolo, Alexandra, 157

Bateman, A. J., 173

Baudouin, Count, 194

B-chromosome, 69, 92

Bdelloid rotifers, 53–4, 82

Beauty, 129–30, 164, 271–96

biased sex ratios and, 117

child-rearing participation and, 216

critical-period learning and, 278

facial features and, 287–8

fashion and, 292–4

female preference for, 130–42

genetic quality and, 142–5

sexual mentality and, 259

symmetry of, 147–9

thinness and, 279–82

as universal, 272–3

waist-to-hip ratio and, 282–4

youth and, 285–7

Behaviourism, 308–10

Bell, Graham, 30, 47–8, 56–7, 58, 59, 69, 83

Bell, Quentin, 291, 294

Bellis, Mark, 216–18

Benshoof, L., 224

Bernstein, Harris, 41–4

Betzig, Laura, 120, 191–4, 232

Bilharzia, 72, 78

Birds

concealed ovulation among, 223

mating systems of, 209, 213–16, 219

parasites of, 146–7

sex chromosomes in, 116–17

sexual selection in, 133–7, 138–9, 158 See also specific species

Birds of paradise, 143–4

Birkhead, Tim, 214, 215, 219

Blind Watchmaker, The (Dawkins), 15

Bloom, Paul, 318, 321

Bodmer, Walter, 81

Bogart, Humphrey, 199

Bonfire of the Vanities (Wolfe), 225

Bonobos, 208–9, 222

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