Table of Contents

1. Ghosts of the Museum: Fluctuation of environment and coevolved antagonist polymorphism as factors in the maintenance of sex
2. Messing up the Plotter: Sex versus non-sex versus parasite
3. Unequal Cousins: Coefficients of relatedness in biology
4. Best and Worst Hotels: The evolution of cooperation
5. Sex Itself: Pathogens as causes of genetic diversity in their host populations
6. Bright Birds: Heritable true fitness and bright birds: a role for parasites?
Appendix: Our Paper Then and Now
7. Man of the Sand Dune Tel: Parent-offspring correlation in fitness under fluctuating selection
8. At the World's Crossroads: Instability and cycling of two competing hosts with two parasites
9. Bishop Wykham of Evolution: Discriminating nepotism: expectable, common, overlooked
10. Land of the Rising Sun: Kinship, recognition, disease, and intelligence: constraints of social evolution
11. Being Rare and Successful: Parasites and sex
12. The Hospitals are Coming: Sex and disease
13. Cited but Little Read: This week's citation classic
14. The Wind in the Baobabs: Selfishness reexamined: no man is an island
15. Time like Dripping Tap: Memes of Haldane and Jayakar in a theory of sex
16. The Three Queens: Sexual reproduction as an adaptation to resist parasites
Appendix: Further Evidence
17. Othello/Uccello: Mate choice near and far
18. Health and Horsemen: The seething genetics of health and the evolution of sex
19. Epilogue