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  1. Sex Determination and Differentiation.
  2. Male Reproductive Strategies vs Female Reproductive Strategies.
  3. Mating Strategies in Butterflies.
  4. Proximate and Ultimate Origins of Female Preferences.
  5. Mating Systems and Parental Investment.
  6. How females choose their mates.
  7. How hormones affect behavior: See Behavioral Endocrinology.
  8. How rank affects reproduction in female chimpanzees. Hear the NPR interview here (about 3.5 min).
  9. Infidelity and Cuckoldry
  10. Change from Virgin to Mated Behavior.
  11. Blank-firing Butterflies.
  12. Driving Parents Cuckoo. More detail is here.
  13. A snippit from Sex Determination, Sex Ratios, and Genetic Conflict. Download the article (needs Adobe Acrobat. Get it here).
  14. Natural and Sexual Selection.
  15. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Causes and consequences of variation in mating preferences.
  16. Homosexuality in Animals: The Gay Side of Nature.
  17. Male courtship activity of the 10-spine stickleback fish.
  18. Neuroendocrine interactions controlling courtship behavior in birds.
  19. Animal Mating Zone
  20. The mating game
  21. Animal Mating Systems
  22. Movies of Spider Courtship Displays
  23. Selected reading from A Natural History of Rape: Biological Basis of Sexual Coercion
  24. Love: Hormones Converge for Couples in Love
  25. Love: First Flush of Love Not Emotional
  26. Love: Married Men Have Less Testosterone
  27. Love: Cohabitating Boosts Men's Mental Health
  28. Love: Divorce and DNA
  29. Love: Genes and Fitness
  30. Love: Romanic Love Abstracts