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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foundations Of Evolutionary Psychology | |
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| Scientific Movements Leading to Evolutionary | |
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| PsychologyLandmarks in the History of Evolutionary | |
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| Psychology Evolution before Darwin Darwin's | |
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| Theory of Natural Selection Darwin's | |
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| Theory of Sexual Selection | |
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| The Role of Natural and Sexual Selection in Evolutionary | |
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| Theory The Modern Synthesis | |
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| Genes and Particulate Inheritance | |
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| The Ethology Movement | |
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| The Inclusive Fitness Revolution | |
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| Clarifying Adaptation and Natural Selection | |
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| Trivers's Seminal Theories | |
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| The Sociobiology Controversy | |
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| Common Misunderstandings About Evolutionary | |
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| Theory Misunderstanding | |
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| Human Behavior is Genetically Determined Misunderstanding | |
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| If It's Evolutionary, Then We Can't Change It Misunderstanding | |
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| Current Mechanisms are Optimally Designed | |
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| Milestones in the Origins of Modern Humans | |
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| Out of Africa versusMultiregional OriginsLandmarks in the Field of Psychology | |
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| Freud's psychoanalytic theory Williams James and the Psychology of Instincts | |
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| The Rise of Behaviorism | |
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| The Astonishing Discoveries of Cultural Variability | |
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| The Garcia effect, prepared fears, and decline of behaviorism Peering into the Black | |
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| Box: The Cognitive RevolutionSummary | |
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| The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology | |
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| The Origins of Human Nature | |
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| Three Theories of the Origins of Adaptive Mechanisms | |
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| The Three Products of Evolution | |
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| Levels of Evolutionary Analysis in Evolutionary Psychology | |
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| The Core of Human Nature | |
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| Fundamentals of Evolved Psychological Mechanisms | |
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| All Species Have a Nature | |
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| Definition of an Evolved | |
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| Psychological Mechanism Important Properties of Evolved | |
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| Psychological Mechanisms | |
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| Methods for Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses | |
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| Comparing Different Species | |
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| Comparing Males and Females | |
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| Comparing Individuals within a Species | |
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| Comparing the Same Individuals in Different | |
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| Contexts Experimental Methods | |
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| Sources of Data for Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses | |
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| Archeological Records Data From Hunter-Gatherer | |
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| Societies Observations Self-Reports | |
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| Life-history Data and Public Records | |
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| Human Products Transcending the Limitations of Single Data Sources | |
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| Identifying the Adaptive Problems Guidance of Modern | |
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| Evolutionary Theory Guidance from Knowledge of Universal | |
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| Human Structures Guidance from Traditional Societies | |
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| Guidance from the Paleoarcheology and Paleoanthropology | |
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| Guidance from Current Mechanisms | |
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| Guidance from Task Analysis Organization of Adaptive | |
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| Problems | |
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| Summary | |
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| Problems Of Survival | |
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| Survival Problems and Solutions | |
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| Food Acquisition and Selection | |
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| Food Selection in Rats Food Selection in Humans Sickness in Pregnant Women | |
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| The Embryo Protection Hypothesis | |
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| Why Humans Like Spices | |
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| The Antimicrobial Hypothesis | |
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| Why Humans Like to Drink Alcohol | |
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| An Evolutionary Hangover? | |
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| The Hunting Hypothesis | |
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| The Gathering Hypothesis | |
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| Comparing the Hunting and Gathering Hypotheses | |
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| The Scavenging Hypothesis | |
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| Adaptations to Gathering and Hunting | |
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| Sex Differences in Specific Spatial Abilities | |
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| Finding a Place to Live | |
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| Shelter and Landscape | |
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| Preferences | |
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| The Savanna Hypothesis | |
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| Combating Predators and Other Environmental Dangers | |
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| Fears, Phobias, Anxieties, and "Evolutionary Memories" Most common human fears | |
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| The Adaptive Conservation Hypothesis of Fears Children's | |
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| Anti-Predator Adaptations Combating Disease | |
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| Are Humans Programmed to Die? | |
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| The Theory of Senescence | |
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| The Puzzle of Suicide | |
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| Summary | |
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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 | |
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| Preferences | |
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| Asexual versus Sexual Reproduction Parental Investment and Sexual Selection | |
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| Mate Preferences as Evolved Psychological Mechanisms | |
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| The Content of Women's | |
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| Mate Preferences | |
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| Preference for Economic Resources | |
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| Preference for Good Financial Prospects | |
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| Preference for High Social Status | |
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| Preference for Older Men | |
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| Preference for Ambition and Industriousness | |
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| Preference for Dependability and Stability | |
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| Preference for Size and Strength | |
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| Preference for Good Health and | |