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Index
Cover
Contents
About the Book
About the Author
Also by Jared Diamond
List of Illustration
Dedication
Title Page
Prologue
Part One: Just Another Species of Big Mammal
1. A Tale of Three Chimps
2. The Great Leap Forward
Part Two: An Animal with a Strange Life Cycle
3. The Evolution of Human Sexuality
4. The Science of Adultery
5. How We Pick Our Mates and Sex Partners
6. Sexual Selection, and the Origin of Human Races
7. Why Do We Grow Old and Die?
Part Three: Uniquely Human
8. Bridges to Human Language
Appendix: Neo-Melanesian in One Easy Lesson
9. Animal Origins of Art
10. Agriculture’s Two-Edged Sword
11. Why Do We Smoke, Drink, and Use Dangerous Drugs?
12. Alone in a Crowded Universe
Part Four: World Conquerors
13. The Last First Contacts
14. Accidental Conquerors
15. Horses, Hittites, and History Appendix: A proto-Indo-European Fable
16. In Black and White
Appendix: Indian Policies of Some Famous Americans
Part Five: Reversing our Progress Overnight
17. The Golden Age that Never Was
18. Blitzkrieg and Thanksgiving in the New World
19. The Second Cloud
Epilogue: Nothing Learned, and Everything Forgotten?
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
Copyright
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