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Preface: A Primate Meets his Match (A note from one of the authors) | |
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Introduction: Another Well-Intentioned Inquisition | |
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A Few Million Years in a Few Pages | |
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On the Origin of the Specious | |
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Remember the Yucat�n! | |
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You Are What You Eat | |
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What Darwin Didn't Know About Sex | |
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The Flintstonization of Prehistory | |
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What Is Evolutionary Psychology and Why Should You Care? | |
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Lewis Henry Morgan | |
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A Closer Look at the Standard Narrative of Human Sexual Evolution | |
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How Darwin Insults Your Mother (The Dismal Science of Sexual Economics) | |
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The Famously Flaccid Female Libido | |
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Male Parental Investment (MPI) | |
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"Mixed Strategies" in the War Between the Sexes | |
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Extended Sexual Receptivity and Concealed Ovulation | |
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The Ape in the Mirror | |
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Primates and Human Nature | |
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Doubting the Chimpanzee Model | |
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In Search of Primate Continuity | |
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Lust in Paradise (Solitary) | |
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Who Lost What in Paradise? | |
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On Getting Funky and Rockin' Round the Clock | |
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Who's Your Daddies? | |
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The Joy of S.E. Ex. | |
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The Promise of Promiscuity | |
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Bonobo Beginnings | |
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Mommies Dearest | |
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Nuclear Meltdown | |
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Making a Mess of Marriage, Mating, and Monogamy | |
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Marriage: The "Fundamental Condition" of the Human Species? | |
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On Matrimonial Whoredom | |
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Paternity Certainty: The Crumbling Cornerstone of the Standard Narrative | |
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Love, Lust, and Liberty at Lugu Lake | |
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On the Inevitability of Patriarchy | |
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The March of the Monogamous | |
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Jealousy: A Beginner's Guide to Coveting Thy Neighbor's Spouse | |
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Zero-Sum Sex | |
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How to Tell When a Man Loves a Woman | |
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The Way we Weren't | |
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"The Wealth of Nature" (Poor?) | |
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Poor, Pitiful Me | |
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The Despair of Millionaires | |
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Finding Contentment "at the Bottom of the Scale of Human Beings" | |
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The Selfish Meme (Nasty?) | |
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Homo Economicus | |
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The Tragedy of the Commons | |
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Dreams of Perpetual Progress | |
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Ancient Poverty or Assumed Affluence? | |
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On Paleolithic Politics | |
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The Never-Ending Battle over Prehistoric War (Brutish?) | |
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Professor Pinker, Red in Tooth and Claw | |
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The Mysterious Disappearance of Margaret Power | |
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The Spoils of War | |
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The Napoleonic Invasion (The Yanomami Controversy) | |
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The Desperate Search for Hippie Hypocrisy and Bonobo Brutality | |
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The Longevity Lie (Short?) | |
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When Does Life Begin? When Does It End? | |
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Is 80 the New 30? | |
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Stressed to Death | |
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Who You Calling a Starry-Eyed Romantic, Pal? | |
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Bodies in Motion | |
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Little Big Man | |
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All's Fair in Love and Sperm War | |
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The Truest Measure of a Man | |
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Hard Core in the Stone Age | |
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Sometimes a Penis Is Just a Penis | |
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The Prehistory of O | |
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"What Horrid Extravagancies of Minde!" | |
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Beware the Devil's Teat | |
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The Force Required to Suppress It | |
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When Girls Go Wild | |
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Female Copulatory Vocalization | |
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Sin Tetas, No Hay Para�so | |
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Come Again? | |
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Men Are From Africa, Women are from Africa | |
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On Mona Lisa's Mind | |
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The Pervert's Lament | |
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Just Say What? | |
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Kellogg's Guide to Child Abuse | |
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The Curse of Calvin Coolidge | |
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The Perils of Monotomy (Monogamy + Monotony) | |
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A Few More Reasons I Need Somebody New (Just Like You) | |
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Confronting the Sky Together | |
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Everybody Out of the Closet | |
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The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Notes | |
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References and Suggested Further Reading | |
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Index | |