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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Chapter 1: Enter God the Dominant Ape
Dominance Defined
History: How a Dominant Male God Rises to Power
Chapter 2: Evolutionary Mechanisms: Etiology
Natural Selection
Sexual Selection
Mate Competition
Mate Selection
Mating Strategies
Quantity
Male Jealousy
Quality
Kin Selection and Kin Altruism
Evolutionary Psychology and the Science of God
Chapter 3: The Protector God
Protector Males
Paternal Certainty in Apes, Men, and God
Problems of Divine Alliance Making
Chapter 4: Sexual Dominance: From Apes to Men to Gods
Apes
Violence and Sexual Access
Infanticide in Nonhuman Primates
Men
What Men Want
What Dominant Men Get
Gods
The Lustful Godhead
Sexually Repressive Gods: Divine Jealousy
The Virgin and the King
Chaste and Submissive
Women
What Women Want in their Men and Gods
The Cost to Women and Children
Veiling
Violence against Women
Infanticide in Men and God
A Case Study
Chapter 5: Cooperative Killing, In-Group Identity, and God
Evidence in the Microcosm
Establishing Boundaries with Kin Altruism
In-Group, Out-Group
Reciprocal Altruism and Indirect Reciprocity
God as War-Maker
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
Sociopathic Killing
Chapter 6: What it Means to Kneel
Size and Domination: What it Means to Be Big
Big Heads, Big Hats
Posturing
Eye Contact
Hand and Foot Kissing
Submission by Ideological Surrender
Chapter 7: Maladaptive Submission to the Godhead
The Pecking Order
Worthlessness and the Sin of Pride
Anhedonia
Sex and the Sin of Lust
Food and the Sin of Gluttony
Diminished Ability to Think
Chapter 8: The Fearsome Reputations of Apes, Men, and Gods
The Origins of Reputation
Men
Gods
Chapter 9: God's Territory
Marking Territory
Territory: Staking Claim to Sex
Rape and the Bible
Staking Claim to Mother Earth
The Earth as Ecosystem
Male Competition and Resource Consumption
Religious Rapacity: An Alternate View
Chapter 10: Righting Ourselves
The Psychology of the Other
Pacifism and Selective Observance
Erecting a Wall
Societal Health and Future Directions
Closing Thoughts
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author
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