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| Each chapter concludes with “Summary,” | |
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| “Questions for Review,” | |
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| “Mind and Body Experiments,” and “Suggested Readings.” | |
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| Goals and Foundations | |
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| Philosophical and Scientific Approaches to the Study of Human Behavior | |
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| Evolutionary Biology | |
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| The Growth of Natural Selection Theory | |
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| The Mechanism of Natural Selection | |
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| The Modern Synthetic Theory of Evolution | |
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| Sociobiology | |
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| Evolutionary Biology in Time and Space | |
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| Principals of Paleobiology | |
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| Classification and Taxonomy | |
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| The Species Concept in Time and Space | |
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| The Social Sciences and Evolutionary Psychology | |
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| A Methodology for Evolutionary Psychology | |
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| Mammals and Nonhuman Primates | |
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| Geology and Evolution | |
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| The Emergence of Mammals | |
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| Interpreting the Fossil Record | |
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| Vertebrates, Mammals, and Primates | |
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| The Rise of Mammals | |
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| The Primates | |
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| Hominoids (Apes and Hominids) | |
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| Hominid Evolution | |
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| Hominid Bipedalism | |
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| Theories for the Rise of Bipedalism | |
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| The Australopithecines | |
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| The Evolution of the GenusHomo | |
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| Neanderthals | |
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| Anatomically ModernHomo sapiens | |
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| The Neolithic | |
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| The Origins of Cultural Complexity | |
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| Hunters and Gatherers and Cultural Universals | |
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| A Brief Survey of the Characteristics of Recent Hunters and Gatherers | |
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| Cultural Universals and Alleged Exceptions | |
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| The Triune and Bicameral Brain | |
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| Major Debates in Attempts to Understand the Brain | |
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| Sexual Dimorphism in the Brain | |
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| Consciousness | |
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| Language and Communication | |
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| Communication | |
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| A Definition of Language | |
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| Nonhuman Primate Experiments | |
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| Cetaceans Studies | |
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| The Origin of Language | |
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| The Antiquity of Languages | |
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| Individual Language Acquisition | |
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| Language and Society | |
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| Other Forms of Communication | |
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| Music, Dancing, and Art | |
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| Physical Touch | |
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| Sex, Reproduction, and Love | |
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| Human Reproductive Strategy | |
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| The Mystery of the Orgasm | |
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| Pair Bonding and Pair Breaking | |
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| Sociosexual Regulation of Copulation | |
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| Homosexuality | |
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| Rape | |
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| Love | |
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| Freudian Thought | |
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| Sex and Sociobiology | |
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| Intelligence, Learning, and Memory | |
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| IQ Tests | |
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| Modern Scientific Studies of Intelligence | |
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| Memory and Learning | |
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| Interspecies Comparisons of Intelligence and Memory | |
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| Behavioral Plasticity | |
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| Sleep and Dreams | |
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| Body Cycles and Rhythms | |
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| Sleep | |
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| Dreams | |
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| The Meaning and Function of Dreams | |
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| The Bottom Line | |
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| The Past | |
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| The Present | |
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| The Future | |
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| On Philosophers and the Infinite | |
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| The Organic and the Superorganic- Admonitions about Rain Gods | |
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| Table 10-1: The Bottom Line | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |