Matt Ridley

Survival of the fittest, 33

disease-resistance and, 150—52, 155—56

Swallows, 152—53, 21 I, 223—24, 227

fat distribution and, 159—61

Swift, Jonathan, 209—10

female-choice theory of, I 34—42,

Symington, Meg, 117, 118, 120

161—62, 164—66

Symmetry, 152—53

Fisher' s theory of, 142 —46, 152—5 3,

Symons, Donald, 182—83, 191, 232, 253,

162, 164, 166, 167

269, 271—72, 274, 296, 333, 339

Good-genes theory of, I42—43, 145—50,

Syntactic Structures (Chomsky), 321

152—53, 162, 164, 167

honest signals and, 153—59

Tacitus, 200, 202

intelligence and, 3 38—44

Talmud, 120

pluralistic view of, 166—67

Tang Dynasty, 199

sensory bias and, 161—64, 167, 168

Tangled bank theory, 60—63, 65, 81, 86

symmetry and, 152—53

Tannen, Deborah, 253

Shakespeare, William, 4, 10—I I, 129,-277, Tardigrada, 85

333

Taxonomic assumption, 314

Short, Roger, 219, 220

'Temple of Nature, The' (Darwin), 23

Sickle-cell anemia, 72

Terns, 139—40, I44

Silverman, Irwin, 251

Territoriality, 177, 187, 203

Simpson, Wallis, 287, 290

inheritance and, 239

Singh, Dev, 291—92

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardy), 238

Skinner, B: F:, 319, 333, 349

Testicular size, 219—22

Slime-mold, 102

Testosterone, 20, I23, 156, I57, 254—58,

Small, Meredith, 213

264—65

Smith, Adam, 93

Thai people, 244

Smith, Holly, 327

Thinness, 287—91