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| Foreword | |
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| Why This Book | |
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| Beginning with Sex Why Males Exist and How Women Are Unique | |
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| Sex in Nature | |
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| Sex among Humans | |
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| The Human Sexes | |
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| The Other Double Helix From Reflex to Culture | |
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| The First Imperatives | |
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| Primary Drives | |
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| Secondary Drives | |
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| Creatures of Habit | |
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| Fetalizing a Primate | |
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| How Your Culture Works on You Perception and Behavior as Cultural Artifacts | |
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| The Culture Concept | |
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| How You Got Culture | |
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| One World, One Culture | |
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| A Ray of Hope | |
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| Making the Culture Concept Manageable | |
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| On Definitions | |
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| In the Beginning Was the Word Language | |
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| Your Sound System | |
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| Rules and Meaning | |
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| Communicating | |
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| Losing Babel's Benefits | |
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| The Marrying Kind Kinship I-Affiliation | |
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| The Biology of Sociality | |
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| Sexuality Revisited | |
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| Working the Reproductive Drives | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Marriage Types and Family Systems | |
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| What's Love Got to Do with It? | |
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| Divorce | |
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| Bloodline Logics Kinship II-Reckoning | |
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| Reckoning Affiliation | |
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| Kinship Nomenclatures | |
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| Bilateral Systems | |
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| Unilineal Systems | |
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| Kinship as Ideal Construct | |
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| Significance | |
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| The Shaft, and How You Got It Inequality | |
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| The Attributes of Inequality | |
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| The Consequences of Inequality | |
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| The Origins of Inequality | |
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| Cultures of Inequality | |
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| The Prerequisites for Stratification | |
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| Types of Stratification | |
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| Sexual and Racial Inequality | |
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| The Purposes of Inequality | |
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| If It Works, It's Obsolete Technology and Culture Change | |
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| From Fire to the Stars | |
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| The Revolutionary Inventions | |
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| Change and Evolution | |
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| Evolution: Adaptation to Ongoing Change | |
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| You and Culture Change | |
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| The Unquenchable Thirst Knowing | |
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| How Knowledge Is Gained | |
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| The Pervasiveness of Magic | |
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| Scientific Thinking | |
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| Magical Thinking | |
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| How Do You Know? | |
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| How Do You Know That What You Know Is Actually So? | |
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| A Reason to Live Worth Dying For Believing | |
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| Stories | |
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| Ideology | |
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| Religion | |
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| Functions of Religion | |
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| Ideology as Agent of Change | |
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| Futures and Alternatives Cultural Trends | |
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| The Population Bomb | |
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| Environmental Collapse | |
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| Inequality in the Third Millennium | |
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| Futures We Have Managed to Avoid | |
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| The Eternal Dichotomy | |
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| The Slippery Slope | |
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| Killer Culture | |
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| Prepping for the Third Millennium Improving Your Odds | |
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| Bringing It Home | |
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| Surviving Well in Interesting Times | |
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| A Functional Education | |
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| And Now a Word from Our Sponsor | |
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| Scenarios | |
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| Index | |