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Borgia, Cesare, 273
Bosnia, 198
Botticelli, Sandro, 272, 280
Bounty (ship), 195
Bowerbirds, 143, 158
Boyce, Mark, 147
Brain
critical period and, 276–7
of dolphins, 299–300
gender differences in, 239
hormones and, 246–50, 255–6
mechanisms of, 311–13
neoteny and, 316–18
progression in size of, 300–303
toolmaking and, 313–14
Brain Sex (Moir and Jessel), 247
Bremermann, Hans, 71–2, 73, 74
Brooks, Lisa, 28
Brown, Don, 198
Buddha, 21
Budding, 48
Burley, Nancy, 117, 160, 216, 223
Burt, Austin, 59–60, 68–9, 83
Buss, David, 259–60, 265, 290
Butler, Samuel, 127
Byrne, Richard, 324–5
Caesar, Julius, 193, 325
Caligula, 193, 273
Carotenoids, 151, 159
Carroll, Lewis, 2
Catherine of Aragon, 233
Catholic Church, 222
controversies with state, 232–3
Cattle breeding, 119
Chaffinches, 277–8
Chagnon, Napoleon, 196–7
Chemical defence, 68
Chimpanzees, 6–7, 206–9, 211–12
intelligence of, 325–6
power seeking among, 188
promiscuity of, 205
toolmaking by, 313
violence of, 196
China
ancient, 191, 192, 199
female infanticide in, 117, 122
harem polygamy in, 186
marriage customs in, 275
Chlamydomonas, 97, 98
Chloroplasts, 96–7
Chomsky, Noam, 304, 311, 318
Chromosomes, 29, 42, 43, 90
crossovers on, 60
jumping genes and, 91–2
parasitic, 69
selfish, 92
sex, 95, 105–10, 116–18, 256, 271
swapping of chunks of, 94–5
Claudius, 193
Clutton-Brock, Tim, 112
Coalitions of males, 189–90
Coelacanth, 31, 60
Cognitive approach, 311
Cohen, Fred, 66–7
Coming of Age in Samoa (Mead), 308
Commons, tragedy of, 87, 122
Communication, 321–3
Competition, 62, 63, 89–90
diversity and, 57–8
female, 224
sexual selection and, 129, 132
within species, 33–4
testicular size and, 214
violence and, 195
Complexity, 15
Computer viruses, 66–7
Concealed ovulation, 222–4
Conditioning, 172, 244
Conflict, 17–19
Conjugation, 91, 98
Connectionism, 310
Connor, Richard, 189, 326
Contingent history, 17
Coolidge, Calvin, 290
Cooperation, 17–19
among genes, 88–90
individual selection and, 36
reciprocity as key to, 74
Corals, 55–6
Cortisol, 151, 247, 256
Cosmides, Leda, 96, 106, 267, 303, 311, 321, 323, 324, 329
Cott, Hugh, 131
Courtly love, 232
Courtship, 128, 129, 150, 163, 164
competition and, 132–3
Cousins, marriage between, 234
Critical period, 276–8
Cronin, Helena, 138
Crook, John, 321
Crossing over, 94–5, 122
Crow, James, 32, 48
Cytomegalovirus, 99
Dahomey, 168
Daly, Martin, 227–8
Dart, Raymond, 314
Darwin, Charles, 6, 8, 9, 14, 19, 27, 31–3, 36, 58, 61, 130–32, 134, 135, 138, 143, 158, 214, 241, 295, 301, 319
Darwin, Erasmus, 24, 232
Darwinian history, 235–6
Dawkins, Marian, 154, 156
Dawkins, Richard, 9, 15, 63, 65, 92, 118–19, 153, 323
Deep structure of language, 304
Deer, 180
Democracy, 199
Descartes, René, 306
Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (Darwin), 130
Despotism, 191–3, 199, 200, 203, 264
Determinism, 252–5
Diamond, Jared, 143, 208
Dickemann, Mildred, 121, 190
Dio, 193
Dionysus effect, 328
Diploidy, 43, 44, 93
Disease theory, 73–6
Dispersal, 54
Division of labour, sexual, 242, 243, 251, 253–4
Divorce, 264–5
DNA, 29, 40, 42, 43–4, 50
discovery of, 8–9
insertions of, 49
parasitic, 92
in sex chromosomes, 116
Dogs, 317
Dolphins, 189, 212, 299–300
Dominance
beauty and, 295–6
biased sex ratios and, 112–15, 119–20
and cultural gender bias, 120–22
inheritance of, 230–31
personality and, 289–90
sexual selection and, 143–4
wealth and, 187–8
Dörner, Gunter, 256
Douglas firs, 77
Dunbar, Robin, 206
Durkheim, Emil, 307, 322, 339
Eals, Marion, 243
Ecology, 41, 43–4, 54–61, 62–3, 76–7
intelligence and, 319–20
mating systems and, 180–86
Education, gender differences and, 249
Egypt, ancient, 191
Eleanor of Aquitaine, 234
Eliot, George, 322
Ellis, Bruce, 260, 261, 263, 289, 296
Ellis, Havelock, 294
Elm trees, 56
Endler, John, 158
Environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA), 184–6
Ericsson, Roland, 116
‘Essay on Man, An’ (Pope), 336
Eugenics, 295, 307
Evolution of Sex (Maynard Smith), 40
Exogamy, 113, 114, 182–3
Extinction 61