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Williams GC. 1966. Adaptation and Natural Selection (Chapter 1, pp. 3-19). Princeton University Press.
Week 3
Fischer, EA. 1980. The relationship between mating system and simultaneous hermaphroditism in the coral reef fish, Hypoplectrus nigricans (Serranidae). Animal Behavior 28: 620-633.
Trivers, R. 1971. The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Quarterly Review of Biology 46: 35-57.
Week 4
Reeve HK, P Nonacs. 1992. Social contracts in wasp societies. Nature 359: 823-825.
Clutton-Brock TH, et al. 2001. Cooperation, control, and concession in meerkat groups. Science 291: 478-481.
Week 5
Strassmann JE, Y Zhue, DC Queller. 2000. Altruism and social cheating in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Nature 408: 965-967.
Kessin RH. 2000. Cooperation can be dangerous. Nature 408: 917-918.
Week 6
West SA, et al. 2001. Testing Hamilton’s rule with competition between relatives. Nature 409: 510-513.
Week 7
Boehm C. 1997. Impact of the human egalitarian syndrome on Darwinian selection mechanics. American Naturalist 150 (supplement): S100-S121.
Week 8
Trivers RL, H Hare. 1976. Haplodiploidy and the evolution of the social insects. Science 191: 249-263.
Mehdiabadi NJ, HK Reeve, UG Mueller. 2003. Queen versus workers: sex-ratio conflict in eusocial Hymenoptera. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18: 88-93.
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Week 9
Hager R, RA Johnstone. 2003. The genetic basis of family conflict resolution in mice. Nature 421: 533-535.
Week 10
Emlen ST, LW Oring. 1977. Ecology, sexual selection, and the evolution of mating systems. Science 197: 215-223.
Week 11
Ryan, MJ, JH Fox, W Wilczynski, AS Rand. 1990. Sexual selection for sensory exploitation in the frog Physalaemus pustulosus. Nature 343: 66-67.
Ryan, MJ. 1998. Sexual selection, receiver biases, and the evolution of sex differences. Science 281: 1999-2003.
Week 12
Wilkinson GS, PR Reillo. 1994. Female choice response to artificial selection on an exaggerated male trait in a stalk-eyed fly. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 255: 1-6.
Wilkinson GS, DC Presgraves, L Crymes. Male eye span in stalk-eyed flies indicates genetic quality by meiotic drive suppression. Nature 391: 276-279.
Hurst LD, A Pomiankowski. 1998. The eyes have it. Nature 391: 223-224.
Week 13
Rice WR. 1996. Sexually antagonistic male adaptation triggered by experimental arrest of female evolution. Nature 381: 232-234.
Chapman T, L Partridge. 1996. Sexual conflict as fuel for evolution. Nature 189-190.
Pizzari T, TR Birkhead. 2000. Female feral fowl eject sperm of subdominant males. Nature 405: 787-789.
Week 14
No discussion sections.
Week 15
Buss D. 2000. The Dangerous Passion (Chapter 7, pp. 158-180). The Free Press, New York.