Foreword
Preface
Part I. Overview: 1. Why sex? R. V. Short
2. Constraints to parthenogenesis D. Crews
Part II. Somatic Dimorphisms Across the Species: 3. Explaining the evolution of unexpected sex differences J. D. Reynolds and P. H. Harvey
4. Sexual dimorphism in the Hymenoptera J. W. Stubblefield and J. Seger
5. Sex change in fishes - how and why D. Y. Shapiro
6. Teeth, horn and antlers: weapons of sex G. A. Lincoln
7. The evolution of sexual size dimorphism in primates R. D. Martin, L. A. Willner and A. Dettling
Part III. Sexual Dimorphisms in Organ Systems: 8. Translating gonadal sex into phenotypic sex J. D. Wilson
9. Sexual dimorphisms in the gonads of marsupial mammals M. B. Renfree
10. Regulation of sexual dimorphism in rat liver J.-A. Gustafsson
11. Sex differences in sounds and their causes E. Balaban
12. Brain structure: causes and consequences of brain sex M. Gahr
Part III. Sexual Dimorphisms in Behaviour: 13. Hormone-behaviour interactions and mating systems in male and female birds J. C. Wingfield
14. Behavioural dimorphisms in African elephants J. H. Poole
15. The costs of sex differences T. H. Clutton-Brock
16. Pheromones: the fruit fly's perfumed garden J.-F. Ferveur, M. Cobb, Y. Oguma and J.-M. Jallon
Part IV. Genetic and Environmental Control of Gonadal Sex: 17. Evolution of mammalian sex chromosomes M. F. Lyon
18. Mammalian sex-determining genes J. A. Marshall Graves
19. Bizarre mammalian sex-determining mechanisms K. Fredga
20. Environmental control of gonadal differentiation C. Pieau, M. Girondat, G. Desrages, M. Dorizzi, N. Richard-Mercier, P. Zaborski
Afterword
A man's a man for a' that R. V. Short
A few chromosomal differences among friends E. Balaban
Index.
