Chapter 1 Sexual Selection: Why Does it Play Such a Large Role in The Descent of Man ?

Chapter 2 Utility vs Beauty: Darwin, Wallace and the Subsequent History of the Debate on Sexual Selection

Chapter 3 Darwin on the Proportion of the Sexes and General Fertility: Discovery and Rejection of Sex Ratio Evolution and Density-Dependent Selection

Chapter 4 Sexual Selection in the French School of Population Genetics: Claudine Petit (1920–2007)

Chapter 6 Standing On Darwin’s Shoulders: The Nature of Selection Hypotheses

Chapter 7 Sexual Selection: The Logical Imperative

Chapter 8 Current Perspectives on Sexual Selection

Chapter 9 Preference, Rationality and Interindividual Variation: The Persisting Debate About Female Choice

Chapter 10 Reaction Norms of Sex and Adaptive Individual Flexibility in Reproductive Decisions

Chapter 11 The Role of Sexual Autonomy in Evolution by Mate Choice

Chapter 12 The Riddle of Attractiveness: Looking for an ‘Aesthetic Sense’ Within the Hedonic Mind of the Beholders

Chapter 13 Aesthetics and Reinforcement: A Behavioural Approach to Aesthetics