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The Red Queen_ Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature - Matt Ridley [195]

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Extra-pair copulation (EPC), 214

Facial features, 282–8

Fallon, April, 293

Fantasies, sexual, 261–3

Fashion, status and, 291–4

Fat distribution, 154–6

Fei-ti, 192, 199

Felix Holt, the Radical (Eliot), 322

Felsenstein, Joe, 83

Feminism, 252–5

Finches, 160, 246–7

5-alpha-reductase deficiency, 250

Fisher, Helen, 264

Fisher, Ronald, 31, 32, 35, 119, 122, 134–5, 138–42, 143, 159, 281, 288, 330

Flaubert, Gustave, 216

Flax, 71

Flour beetles, 92

Flycatchers, 225

Foley, Robert, 182–4

Foragers, see Hunter-gatherers

Ford, Henry, 320

Fossils, 60, 61

of human ancestors, 183, 301, 317

Fox, Robin, 307

Frank, Steve, 93

Free will, 4, 5, 7

Freud, Sigmund, 273–6, 308, 322, 339

Frogs, 156–7

Fruit flies, 93–4, 142, 173

Fungi, 68, 84

bacteria and, 68, 69

Fusion sex, 97–9

Galton, Francis, 287, 339

Game theory, 177, 180, 213

//Gana San people, 187

Gender(s), 13, 87–123

asymmetry between, 171–5

choosing, 122

cultural preference patterns for, 120–22

determination of, 95, 105–10

dominance and, 112–15, 119–20

hermaphroditism versus, 100–103

mentality and, 239–67

and organelles, 96–8, 100–103

parasites altering, 104–5

selling, 115–20

Generations, length of, 68–9

Genes, 8–9, 16, 31–3

altruism and, 36

asexual, 38

of bacteria, 68, 90–91

behaviour and, 306–7, 309

and competition within species, 34

cooperation between, 19, 88–95

crossing over of, 94–5

in defence against parasites, 64

definition of, 29

gender and, 88, 100

histocompatibility, 72–3

homosexuality and, 255–7, 271–2

hormones and, 246

jumping, 82, 91–2

kin selection and, 74

meiotic-drive, 94

mental differences and, 244

mixing of, 30, 53

mutations and, 44–50

neoteny, 330–32

in organelles, 96–8, 100–103

for ornamentation, 140

parliament of, 95, 123

polymorphism and, 69–71, 81

racial differences and, 12–13

repair of, 41–4, 49–50, 60, 83

resistance, 75, 81–2

selfish, 92–4

sex and, 12–13

sex-linked, 330

for sexual reproduction, 36–7

sexual selection and, 136, 137

and tangled bank theory, 59–60

Genetics, 40–41, 42, 44–50

Genome, 29

‘Gentle Echo on Woman, A’ (Swift), 202

Germanic tribes, 195

Ghiselin, Michael, 36–7, 38, 57

Gibbons, 206, 207

Gibbon, Edward, 193

Gigerenzer, Gerd, 323–4

Goodall, Jane, 114, 188, 207, 325

Gonadotrophin, 118

Gordian, 193

Gorillas, 206, 208, 209, 211, 212

intelligence of, 320

Goshawks, 222

Gosling, Morris, 117

Gould, Stephen Jay, 38–9, 306, 309, 316, 317

Grackles, 160

Gradualism, 60

Grafen, Alan, 93–5

Grant, Valerie, 115, 118

Greece, ancient, 197

Group selection, 34–6, 69

Grouse, 136, 137, 139, 147, 181–2

Guilford, Tim, 154, 156

Guppies, 134, 158–9

Gynodioecious plants, 101

Haig, David, 93–5, 271–2

Haldane, J. B. S., 35, 37, 71, 74, 81

Halliday, Tim, 132

Hamilton, William, 74–6, 81–3, 88, 106, 110, 145–6, 150, 153, 214–15, 330

Hammurabi, 191, 192

Handedness, 256–7

Haploidy, 43, 93

Hardy, Thomas, 230

Hart, Gary, 199

Hartung, John, 190–91

Henry VIII, King of England, 233

Hepburn, Katharine, 198–9

Hermaphrodites, 16, 84, 88, 100–103

Herodotus, 337

Heterozygosity, 69–70, 74

Hickey, Donal, 91–2

Hill, Adrian, 73

Hill, Kim, 185, 220–21

Histocompatibility, 73

History, 17, 18

cooperation and conflict in, 18–19

Darwinian, 235–6

Hitler, Adolf, 191

HIV, 68, 72, 73, 99

Hobbes, Thomas, 197, 305

Höglund, Jakob, 133

Homer, 194, 197–8

Homo erectus, 10, 184, 185, 301, 313, 314, 316, 317, 319

Homo habilis, 301, 313, 314, 316

Homosexuality, 175–6

causes of, 255–7

and gender differences in, mentality, 242

gene for, 271–2

pornography and, 262, 263

Hormones

brains and, 246–50

fat distribution and, 283–4

homosexuality and, 256–7

sex ratio and, 118–19

sexual selection and, 152

Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 120–22, 205, 207, 224

Hudson, Liam, 245

Hume, David, 21, 339

Hummingbirds, 38

Humphrey, Nicholas, 33, 320–22, 325–6

Hunter-gatherers, 182–5, 186–7, 204, 219–21, 236

accumulated knowledge of, 315

sexual division of labour among, 242–3, 251, 253–4

Hurst, Lawrence, 93, 97–8, 104, 271–2

Huxley, Julian, 35, 131, 132, 159

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 52

Hyaenas,

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