rate of, 63
sexual selection and, 150—52, 155—57,
167
Nash, Odgen, 89, 245
Parthenogenesis, 38, 40
Natural selection, 5, 6, 15, 243, 280
Pastoral societies, 194—95, 212
beauty and, 134
Paul, St:, 241
and competition within species, 34
Peafowl, 133, 135, 136, 139, 140, 149—50,
genetic mixing and, 30
153-54, 157, 164, 165, 178—79
parasitic and, 66
Personality, 298—99
sexual selection and, 20
Phalaropes, 180, 254
Nazism, 319
Pheasants, 140, 295
Nefertiti, 281, 288
Piaget, Jean, 333, 349
Nematodes, 85
Pinker, Steve, 328—29, 332
Neoteny, 327—29, 342—43
Pitcairn Islanders, 202
Nero, 200
Plagues, 65—66
Neural networks, 321
Plasmids, 96
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Platyfish, I62
inheritance and, 239
Prostitution, 179, 181, 183
Pleistocene period, 193, 207, 251, 252,
war and, 205
254, 262, 266, 273, 288, 300, 322,
Protozoa, 48—49
328—29
Proust, Marcel, 3 3 3
Poggio, Tomaso, 321
Pseudogamy, 38
Polar bears, 18
Psychology, 318—19
Polyandry, 176—77
Puberty, 258, 264
among birds, 222
