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The Red Queen_ Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature - Matt Ridley [197]

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reduced by, 195 see also Marriage

Monogonont rotifers, 54, 55, 57, 83

Montagu, Ashley, 317

Montezuma, 191

Morality, 305–6

Mormons, 179

Morris, Desmond, 222

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 4

Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare), 270

Mukogodo people, 121, 188

Mulder, Monique Borgehoff, 178

Muller, Hermann, 31, 47–9, 60

Mutation, 32, 33, 44–50, 76

of ornamentation, 140, 145

outcrossing and, 43

rate of, 61

Nash, Ogden, 86, 238

Natural selection, 5, 6, 15, 235, 272

beauty and, 129–30

and competition within species, 34

genetic mixing and, 30

parasites and, 64

sexual selection and, 20

Nazism, 308

Nefertiti, 273, 280

Nematodes, 82, 83

Neoteny, 316–18, 330–32

Nero, 193

Neural networks, 310

New Guinea, 3–4, 143

Nordborg, Magnus, 117

Nurture and nature, 6–11, 169, 174–5, 244–5, 276

homosexuality and, 257, 271

intelligence and, 306

Oakley, Kenneth, 313

Oestrus, 208

Oldowan technology, 313

Onassis, Aristotle, 166

On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 7, 32, 58, 130

Opossums, 111–12

Opportunistic infections, 99

Organelles, 96–8, 100–104

Orang-utans, 207, 223

Orgasm, female, 216–19

Othello (Shakespeare), 228

Outcrossing, 30, 42, 43

Ovulation, concealed, 222–4

Owls, 224–5

Oysters, 56

Paglia, Camille, 255

Paramecium, 99–100

Parasites, 63–84

altitude and, 76, 77

cross-reactivity to, 99

gender-altering, 104–5

genetic, 92–3

immune system and, 71–3

instability and, 81–2

sexual selection and, 145–7, 150–53, 162

Parthenogenesis, 37–8, 40

Pastoral societies, 187–8, 204

Paul, St, 233

Peafowl, 129, 130–31, 132, 135, 136, 145, 146, 149, 152–3, 159, 160, 172–3

Personality, 289–90

Phalaropes, 174, 246

Pheasants, 135–6, 286

Piaget, Jean, 322, 339

Pinker, Steve, 318, 321

Pitcairn Islanders, 195

Plagues, 63

Plasmids, 92

Platyfish, 157

Playboy, 279, 283

Playgirl, 263

Pleistocene period, 186, 199, 243, 244, 246, 254, 258, 264, 279, 291, 312, 318

Poggio, Tomaso, 311

Polar bears, 18

Polyandry, 170–71

among birds, 214

Polygamy, 111, 114, 167–8, 170, 198–200, 204, 210

adultery and, 224–7

ecology and, 185

gender asymmetry and, 171–4

in history, 190–94

among hunter-gatherers, 221

among mammals, 213

parasites and, 146

serial, 177–9

sexual selection and, 135

size and, 330

spatial skills and, 239, 242–3

variations of, 186

wealth and, 187–8, 234–5

Polygamy threshold model, 178–80

Polymorphism, 69–71, 73, 74, 81

Polyploidy, 43–4

Pomiankowski, Andrew, 93, 147, 148–9, 161, 162

Pope, Alexander, 336

Pornography, 258, 262–3

Potts, Wayne, 73

Poultry industry, 119

Power, 167–8, 187–94, 198–9, 236, 258–9

inheritance patterns and, 230–35

Predators, 63–4, 71

Premature death, causes of, 62–3

Primates, see Apes; Monkeys

Primogeniture, 232–4

Progesterone, 247

Progress

evolution and, 27, 31, 60–61, 62

relativity of, 17–18

Promiscuity, 257–8

homosexual, 175–6

inheritance and, 231 See also Adultery

Prostitution, 173, 175, 176

war and, 198

Protozoa, 48

Proust, Marcel, 322

Pseudogamy, 38

Psychology, 307, 308

Puberty, 250, 255, 256

Race, 12–13

sexual selection and, 130

Racism, 7–8

sexism and, 265–6

Rape husbands of victims of, 229

in war, 198

Ray, Thomas, 67

Reciprocity, 74, 187, 189

Recombination, 30, 41–4, 46, 48, 60

generation length and, 68–9

Recursion, 318

Reptiles, immune system of, 68, 71

Returning-soldier effect, 117–18

Roach fish, 152

Romance novels, 262–3

Rome, ancient, 193–4, 195

Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 97, 126, 138

Rose, Michael, 91

Rotifers, 53–5, 57, 82–3

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 305

Royal Society (London), 28

Rozin, Paul, 293

Rubens, Peter Paul, 272, 281

Ryan, Michael, 156–7, 159, 162

San tribe, 10

Scale insects, 77, 93

Scheherazade effect, 328–9

Sea horses, 173–4

Seals, 18

Searcy, William, 160

Seduction, 149–50, 153, 156, 171, 172

adultery and, 210

Segregation distorter, 93–4

Segregation theory of sex, 46

Seid, Roberta, 279

Self-Made Man and His Undoing (Kingdon), 244

Sex chromosomes, 95, 105–10, 116–18, 256, 271

Sex and Evolution (Williams), 40

Sexism, 240–41, 250–54

racism and, 265–6

Sex ratios, biased, 104, 110

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