| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
| 1 | What Is Cryptic Female Choice? | 3 |
| 2 | Selection on Cryptic Female Choice | 44 |
| 3 | Principal Mechanisms of Cryptic Female Choice | 80 |
| 4 | Other Mechanisms of Cryptic Female Choice | 142 |
| 5 | Evidence That Cryptic Female Choice is Widespread, I: Copulatory Courtship and Related Phenomena | 204 |
| 6 | Evidence That Cryptic Female Choice Is Widespread, II: Effects of Male Sexual Products on Females | 256 |
| 7 | Evidence That Cryptic Female Choice Is Widespread, III: Male and Female Morphology | 331 |
| 8 | Related Topics | 367 |
| 9 | Evidence Ruling Out Cryptic Female Choice: Is It Common? | 397 |
| 10 | Summary and Conclusions | 416 |
| References | 423 |
| Subject Index | 489 |
| Taxonomic Index | 492 |
