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| Every chapter concludes with Summary | |
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| Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology | |
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| The Scientific Movements Leading to Evolutionary Psychology | |
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| Landmarks in the History of Evolutionary Psychology | |
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| Common Misunderstandings about Evolutionary Theory | |
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| Landmarks in the Field of Psychology | |
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| The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology | |
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| The Origins of Human Nature | |
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| The Core of Human Nature: Fundamentals of Evolved Psychological Mechanisms | |
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| Methods for Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses | |
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| Sources of Data for Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses | |
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| Identifying Adaptive Problems | |
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| Problems of Survival | |
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| Combating the Hostile Forces of Nature: Human Survival Problems | |
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| Food Acquisition and Selection | |
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| Finding a Place to Live: Shelter and Landscape Preferences | |
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| Combating Predators and other Environmental Dangers: Fears, Phobias, Anxieties, and Evolutionary Memories | |
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| Are Humans Programmed to Die? | |
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| Challenges of Sex and Mating | |
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| Women's Long-Term Mating Strategies | |
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| Theoretical Background for the Evolution of Mate Preferences | |
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| The Content of Women's Mate Preferences | |
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| Context Effects of Women's Preferences | |
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| How Women's Mate Preferences Affect Actual Mating Behavior | |
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| Men's Long-Term Mating Strategies | |
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| Theoretical Background for the Evolution of Men's Mate Preferences | |
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| The Content of Men's Mate Preferences | |
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| Context Effects on Men's Mating Behavior | |
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| Effect of Men's Mate Preferences on Actual Mating Behavior | |
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| Short-Term Sexual Strategies | |
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| Theories of Men's Short-Term Mating | |
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| Evidence for an Evolved Short-Term Mating Psychology | |
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| Women's Short-Term Mating | |
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| Context Effects on Short-Term Mating | |
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| Challenges of Parenting and Kinship | |
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| Problems of Parenting | |
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| Why Do Mothers Provide More Parental Care Than Fathers? | |
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| An Evolutionary Perspective on Parental Care | |
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| The Theory of Parent-Offspring Conflict | |
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| Problems of Kinship | |
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| Theory and Implications of Inclusive Fitness | |
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| Empirical Findings that Support the Implications of Inclusive Fitness Theory | |
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| Problems of Group Living | |
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| Cooperative Alliances | |
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| The Evolution of Cooperation | |
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| Examples of Cooperation in Nature | |
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| Aggression and Warfare | |
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| The Demise of Instinct Theory | |
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| Aggression as a Solution to Adaptive Problems | |
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| Why Are Men More Violently Aggressive Than Women? | |
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| Empirical Evidence for Distinct Adaptive Patterns of Aggression | |
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| Conflict between the Sexes | |
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| Strategic Interference Theory | |
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| Conflict about the Occurrence and Timing of Sex | |
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| Jealous Conflict | |
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| From Vigilance to Violence: Tactics of Mate Retention | |
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| Conflict over Access to Resources | |
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| Status, Prestige, and Social Dominance | |
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| The Emergence of Dominance Hierarchies | |
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| Dominance and Status in Non-Human Animals | |
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| Evolutionary Theories of Dominance and Status | |
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| An Integrated Psychological Science | |
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| Toward a Unified Evolutionary Psychology | |
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| Evolutionary Cognitive Psychology | |
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| Evolutionary Social Psychology | |
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| Evolutionary Developmental Psychology | |
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| Evolutionary Personality Psychology | |
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| Evolutionary Clinical Psychology | |
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| Evolutionary Cultural Psychology | |
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| Toward a Unified Psychology | |