Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Sex Allocation -- 1.1 What Is Sex Allocation? -- 1.2 A Potted History -- 1.3 Why Is This Book Needed? -- 1.4 What Is in This Book -- 1.5 What Is Not in This Book -- 1.6 How To Read This Book -- 1.7 Language and Sex Ratios -- 2. The Düsing-Fisher Theory of Equal Investment -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Fisher's Theory of Equal Investment -- 2.3 Darwin to Today -- 2.4 Differential Mortality -- 2.5 Testing Fisher's Theory -- 2.6 Conclusions and Future Directions -- 3. Interactions between Relatives I: Cooperation and Competition -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Basic Theory -- 3.3 Local Resource Enhancement -- 3.4 Local Resource Competition -- 3.5 Conclusions and Future Directions -- 4. Interactions between Relatives II: Local Mate Competition -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Classic Local Mate Competition Theory -- 4.3 Empirical Tests of Local Mate Competition Theory across Populations or Species -- 4.4 Facultative Adjustment of Offspring Sex Ratios by Individuals -- 4.5 Conclusions and Future Directions -- 5. Interactions between Relatives III: Extended Local Mate Competition Theory -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Partial LMC -- 5.3 Variable Clutch Size -- 5.4 Sibmating and Split Sex Ratios in Haplodiploids -- 5.5 Inbreeding Depression -- 5.6 Limited Dispersal and Relatedness between Foundress Females -- 5.7 Haystacks -- 5.8 Asymmetrical Larval Competition -- 5.9 Fertility Insurance -- 5.10 Variance and Precision -- 5.11 Other Population Structures -- 5.12 Stochasticity -- 5.13 Conclusions and Future Directions -- 6. Conditional Sex Allocation I: Basic Scenarios -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Theory -- 6.3 Solitary Parasitoid Wasps and Host Size -- 6.4 Maternal Quality in Ungulates -- 6.5 Maternal Quality and Related Factors in Nonungulates -- 6.6 Mate Attractiveness in Birds and Lizards.

6.7 Environmental Sex Determination -- 6.8 Sex Change -- 6.9 Conclusions and Future Directions -- 7. Conditional Sex Allocation II: Population Consequences and Further Complications -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Population-Level Patterns -- 7.3 Sex Change Complications -- 7.4 ESD Complications, Especially in Reptiles -- 7.5 Multiple Selective Forces: LMC and Host Size in Parasitoid Wasps -- 7.6 Simultaneous Hermaphrodites -- 7.7 Conclusions and Future Directions -- 8. Sex Allocation When Generations Overlap -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Exceptional Mortality -- 8.3 Exceptional Recruitment -- 8.4 Cyclical Models -- 8.5 Conclusions and Future Directions -- 9. Conflict I: Between Individuals -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Conflict under Fisherian Selection -- 9.3 Conflict under LMC, LRC, and LRE -- 9.4 Sibling Conflict in Haplodiploids and Single-Sex Broods -- 9.5 Polyembryonic Parasitoids -- 9.6 Sex Allocation Conflicts in the Eusocial Hymenoptera -- 9.7 Conclusions and Future Directions -- 10. Conflict II: Sex Allocation Distorters -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Classification of Sex Ratio Distorters -- 10.3 Case Studies -- 10.4 Consequences of Sex Ratio Distorters -- 10.5 Conclusions and Future Directions -- 11. General Issues -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The Success of Sex Allocation -- 11.3 The Use of Sex Allocation -- 11.4 Outstanding Problems -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.