CHAPTER 1: ENTER GOD THE DOMINANT APE
History: How a Dominant Male God Rises to Power
CHAPTER 2: EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS: ETIOLOGY
Kin Selection and Kin Altruism
Evolutionary Psychology and the Science of God
Paternal Certainty in Apes, Men, and God
Problems of Divine Alliance Making
CHAPTER 4: SEXUAL DOMINANCE: FROM APES TO MEN TO GODS
Infanticide in Nonhuman Primates
Sexually Repressive Gods: Divine Jealousy
What Women Want in Their Men and Gods
The Cost to Women and Children
CHAPTER 5: COOPERATIVE KILLING, IN-GROUP IDENTITY, AND GOD
Establishing Boundaries with Kin Altruism
Reciprocal Altruism and Indirect Reciprocity
Patterns of Primate Alliance-Making
Costly Signals with God for Help in Killing
The Great Out-Group Prejudice of Humankind
The Sociopathy of the In-Group
CHAPTER 6: WHAT IT MEANS TO KNEEL
Size and Domination: What it Means to Be Big
Submission by Ideological Surrender
CHAPTER 7: MALADAPTIVE SUBMISSION TO THE GODHEAD
Worthlessness and the Sin of Pride
CHAPTER 8: THE FEARSOME REPUTATIONS OF APES, MEN, AND GODS
Territory: Staking Claim to Sex
Male Competition and Resource Consumption
Religious Rapacity: An Alternate View
CHAPTER 10: RIGHTING OURSELVES
Pacifism and Selective Observance