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Index
Cover
Title Page
Epigraph
Preface:
Introduction:
A Few Million Years in a Few Pages
Part I:
1.
You Are What You Eat
2.
The Flintstonization of Prehistory
What Is Evolutionary Psychology and Why Should You Care?
Lewis Henry Morgan
3.
How Darwin Insults Your Mother (The Dismal Science of Sexual Economics)
The Famously Flaccid Female Libido
Male Parental Investment (MPI)
“Mixed Strategies” in the War Between the Sexes
Extended Sexual Receptivity and Concealed Ovulation
4.
Primates and Human Nature
Doubting the Chimpanzee Model
In Search of Primate Continuity
Part II:
5.
On Getting Funky and Rockin’ Round the Clock
6.
The Joy of S.E.Ex.
The Promise of Promiscuity
Bonobo Beginnings
7.
Nuclear Meltdown
8.
Marriage: The “Fundamental Condition” of the Human Species?
On Matrimonial Whoredom
9.
Love, Lust, and Liberty at Lugu Lake
On the Inevitability of Patriarchy
The March of the Monogamous
10.
Zero-Sum Sex
How to Tell When a Man Loves a Woman
Part III:
11.
Poor, Pitiful Me
The Despair of Millionaires
Finding Contentment “at the Bottom of the Scale of Human Beings”
12.
Homo Economicus
The Tragedy of the Commons
Dreams of Perpetual Progress
Ancient Poverty or Assumed Affluence?
On Paleolithic Politics
13.
Professor Pinker, Red in Tooth and Claw
The Mysterious Disappearance of Margaret Power
The Spoils of War
The Napoleonic Invasion (The Yanomami Controversy)
The Desperate Search for Hippie Hypocrisy and Bonobo Brutality
14.
When Does Life Begin? When Does It End?
Is 80 the New 30?
Stressed to Death
Who You Calling a Starry-Eyed Romantic, Pal?
Part IV:
15.
All’s Fair in Love and Sperm War
16.
Hard Core in the Stone Age
17.
18.
“What Horrid Extravagancies of Minde!”
Beware the Devil’s Teat
The Force Required to Suppress It
19.
Female Copulatory Vocalization
Sin Tetas, No Hay Paraíso
Come Again?
Part V:
20.
21.
Just Say What?
Kellogg’s Guide to Child Abuse
The Curse of Calvin Coolidge
The Perils of Monotomy (Monogamy + Monotony)
A Few More Reasons I Need Somebody New (Just Like You)
22.
Everybody Out of the Closet
The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon
Authors’ Note
Acknowledgments
Notes
References and Suggested Further Reading
Searchable Terms
P.S. Insights, Interviews & More…
Praise
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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