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The Red Queen_ Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature - Matt Ridley [198]

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Sexual selection, 13, 19–20, 127–64, 272

beauty and, 285–6, 288, 295–6

competition and, 129, 132

disease-resistance and, 145–7, 150–51

fat distribution and, 154–6

female-choice theory of, 130–37, 156–8, 159–61

Fisher’s theory of, 138–42, 147–9, 157, 159, 161, 162

Good-genes theory of, 138–9, 141–5, 147–9, 157, 159, 162

honest signals and, 149–54

intelligence and, 327–33

pluralistic view of, 161–2

sensory bias and, 156–9, 162, 163

symmetry and, 147–8

Shakespeare, William, 4, 10–11, 126, 270, 322

Short, Roger, 211, 212

Sickle-cell anemia, 70

Silverman, Irwin, 243

Simpson, Wallis (Duchess of Windsor), 279, 281

Singh, Devendra, 282–3

Skinner, B. F., 308, 322, 339

Slime-mould, 98

Small, Meredith, 205

Smith, Adam, 89

Smith, Holly, 317

Smith, Robert, 223

Smolker, Rachel, 189

Smuts, Robert, 280

Snails, 78–9

Social contracts, 324

Social Darwinism, 307

Social skills, 243, 244

Social status, see Dominance

Society, individual in, 11–13

Sociobiology (Wilson), 21

Socioecology, 180–81, 183–6

Sociology, 307–8

Sparrows, 225–7

Spatial skills, 239, 242–3, 249

Species, survival of, 32

Sperm competition theory, 205–18, 222, 223

Status, see Dominance

Strawberries, 55–6

Suetonius, 193

Sumeria, 192

Sunquist, Mel, 111

Survival of the fittest, 33

Swallows, 148–9, 203, 215–16, 219

Swift, Jonathan, 202

Symington, Meg, 112, 113, 115

Symmetry, 147–9

Symons, Donald, 176, 184, 224, 245, 261, 263, 265, 287, 322, 328

Syntactic Structures (Chomsky), 311

Tacitus, 193, 195

Talmud, 115

Tang Dynasty, 192

Tangled bank theory, 58–61, 63, 78–9, 83

Tannen, Deborah, 245

Tardigrades, 82, 83

Taxonomic assumption, 303–4

‘Temple of Nature, The’ (Darwin), 24

Terns, 135–6, 139

Territoriality, 171, 180, 196

inheritance and, 230

Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Hardy), 230

Testicular size, 211–14

Testosterone, 20, 118, 151–2, 246–50, 255–7

Thai people, 235

Thinness, 278–82

Thornhill, Nancy Wilmsen, 234, 235, 259, 276

Thornhill, Randy, 224

Thorpe, William, 278

Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll), 2, 17, 62

Tiberius, 193

Tierra, 67

Tiger, Lionel, 17

Tinbergen, Nikolaas, 277

Tooby, John, 74, 80, 96, 106, 267, 303, 311, 321, 329

Toolmaking, 313–14

Topminnows, 79–80

Tragedy of the commons, 87, 122

Transposons, 91–2

Trivers, Robert, 110–15, 118–22, 129, 172, 205, 325

Trobriand Islanders, 229

Trojan War, 197–8

Trollope, Anthony, 322

Trumai people, 234

Trypanosomes, 72–3

Turkeys, 104

brush, 127–8

coalition of males among, 189

Turner’s syndrome, 247, 249

Twin studies of homosexuality, 271

Udayama, 191–2

United States Department of Agriculture, 116

University of Michigan, 291

Vaccination, 71

Van Valen, Leigh, 61–2

Veiga, José, 225–6

Verbal tasks, 242, 243, 249

Vermelin, H., 105

Vicar of Bray hypothesis, 30–31, 36, 47, 50, 61, 78, 83

Violence, 195–8

gender differences in, 241

jealousy and, 228

Virgin greenflies, 28, 29

Viruses, 69, 90

AIDS, see HIV artificial, 66–7

fusion and, 99

Voles, 239

Volterra, Vito, 81

Vrijenhoek, Robert, 79–80

Waist-to-hip ratio, 282–4

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 27, 131, 138

War, 195–8

Wason test, 323–4

Wasps, 103, 104

Water fleas, 39, 47, 48

Way Men Think, The (Hudson and Jacot), 245

Wealth, 187–95, 198, 236

beauty and, 280–282

incest taboos and, 276

inheritance of, 230–35

ornamentation as sign of, 291

sexual mentality and, 258–60

Weill, Kurt, 238

Weismann, August, 8, 28, 30–31, 83

Welch, David, 54

Westermarck, Edward, 274–7

Whales, 212

White cells, 72

Whiten, Andrew, 324–5

Whole object assumption, 303

Willard, Dan, 110–15, 118, 120–22

Williams George, 35–40, 54–7, 58, 60–61, 83, 88, 110

Wilmot, John, 298

Wilson, Edward, 21, 266, 339

Wilson, Margo, 227–8

Windsor, Duchess of, 279, 281

Wolfe, Tom, 225, 279, 291, 322

Woodpeckers, 189, 222

World War II, 256

Wrangham, Richard, 206, 221

Wright, Sewall, 35

Wynne Edwards, V. C., 32, 34, 35

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

Yanomamö tribe, 196–7, 265

Y chromosomes, 95, 105–10, 116, 118

You Just Don’t Understand (Tannen), 245

Youthfulness, 285–7, 331–2

Zahavi, Amotz,

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