A Royal Society Discussion meeting

Organised by Tracey Chapman, Tom Tregenza and Nina Wedell

Held at the Royal Society, London, 9th and 10th May 2005

Sexual reproduction is fraught with conflict. The potential for mates to exploit one another leads to divergence in sex roles and two very different types of individual being built by the same genes. Knowledge of the conflicts between genes in males and females is shaping how we understand the evolution of mating systems, of sex ratios and of sex itself.

Speakers:

Göran Arnqvist
Adam Chippindale
Andrew Clark
Sergey Gavrilets
David Haig
Hanna Kokko
Kate Lessells
Geoff Parker
Andrew Pomiankowski
William Rice
Locke Rowe
Mike Siva-Jothy
Willie Swanson

Many thanks to all our speakers, to the staff of the Royal Society and to all those who attended the meeting. A special edition of Philsophical Transactions of the Royal Society features papers by the speakers from this meeting - check it out. A pdf of the introduction to this issue is available here.