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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,