Sex at Dawn · the Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Ryan, Christopher -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Preface Introduction

Part I

You Are What You Eat

The Flintstonization of Prehistory What Is Evolutionary Psychology and Why Should You Care? Lewis Henry Morgan

Primates and Human Nature Doubting the Chimpanzee Model In Search of Primate Continuity

Part II

On Getting Funky and Rockin’ Round the Clock

The Joy of S.E.Ex. The Promise of Promiscuity Bonobo Beginnings

Nuclear Meltdown

Marriage On Matrimonial Whoredom

Love, Lust, and Liberty at Lugu Lake On the Inevitability of Patriarchy The March of the Monogamous

Zero-Sum Sex How to Tell When a Man Loves a Woman

Part III

Poor, Pitiful Me The Despair of Millionaires Finding Contentment “at the Bottom of the Scale of Human Beings”

Homo Economicus The Tragedy of the Commons Dreams of Perpetual Progress Ancient Poverty or Assumed Affluence? On Paleolithic Politics

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

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

All’s Fair in Love and Sperm War

Hard Core in the Stone Age

17 18

“What Horrid Extravagancies of Minde!” Beware the Devil’s Teat The Force Required to Suppress It

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)

Everybody Out of the Closet The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon

Notes References and Suggested Further Reading Searchable Terms Acknowledgments About the Authors Credits Copyright About the Publisher