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Index
Cover
Title Page
Epigraph
Contents
Preface: A Primate Meets His Match (A note from one of the authors)
Introduction: Another Well-Intentioned Inquisition
A Few Million Years in a Few Pages
Part I: On the Origin of the Specious
1. Remember the Yucatán!
You Are What You Eat
2. What Darwin Didn’t Know About Sex
The Flintstonization of Prehistory
What Is Evolutionary Psychology and Why Should You Care?
Lewis Henry Morgan
3. A Closer Look at the Standard Narrative of Human Sexual Evolution
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. The Ape in the Mirror
Primates and Human Nature
Doubting the Chimpanzee Model
In Search of Primate Continuity
Part II: Lust In Paradise (Solitary?)
5. Who Lost What in Paradise?
On Getting Funky and Rockin’ Round the Clock
6. Who’s Your Daddies?
The Joy of S.E.Ex.
The Promise of Promiscuity
Bonobo Beginnings
7. Mommies Dearest
Nuclear Meltdown
8. Making a Mess of Marriage, Mating, and Monogamy
Marriage: The “Fundamental Condition” of the Human Species?
On Matrimonial Whoredom
9. Paternity Certainty: The Crumbling Cornerstone of the Standard Narrative
Love, Lust, and Liberty at Lugu Lake
On the Inevitability of Patriarchy
The March of the Monogamous
10. Jealousy: A Beginner’s Guide to Coveting Thy Neighbor’s Spouse
Zero-Sum Sex
How to Tell When a Man Loves a Woman
Part III: The Way We Weren’t
11. “The Wealth of Nature” (Poor?)
Poor, Pitiful Me
The Despair of Millionaires
Finding Contentment “at the Bottom of the Scale of Human Beings”
12. The Selfish Meme (Nasty?)
Homo Economicus
The Tragedy of the Commons
Dreams of Perpetual Progress
Ancient Poverty or Assumed Affluence?
On Paleolithic Politics
13. The Never-Ending Battle over Prehistoric War (Brutish?)
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. The Longevity Lie (Short?)
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: Bodies in Motion
15. Little Big Man
All’s Fair in Love and Sperm War
16. The Truest Measure of a Man
Hard Core in the Stone Age
17. Sometimes a Penis Is Just a Penis
18. The Prehistory of O
“What Horrid Extravagancies of Minde!”
Beware the Devil’s Teat
The Force Required to Suppress It
19. When Girls Go Wild
Female Copulatory Vocalization
Sin Tetas, No Hay Paraíso
Come Again?
Part V: Men Are from Africa, Women Are from Africa
20. On Mona Lisa’s Mind
21. The Pervert’s Lament
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. Confronting the Sky Together
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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