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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The Evolutionary Approach to Human Behaviour | |
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| Natural selection | |
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| Speciation and the evolutionary processes | |
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| Asking the right questions | |
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| Reductionism vs holism | |
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| Approaches to the study of human behaviour | |
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| The problem of external validity | |
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| Human evolution | |
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| Towards a unified approach | |
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| Modern human origins | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Basics of Evolutionary Theory | |
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| Individual selection and the selfish gene | |
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| Genomic imprinting | |
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| The problem of altruism | |
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| Calculating degrees of relatedness | |
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| Prisoner's dilemma | |
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| Other models of cooperation | |
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| Evolutionarily stable strategies | |
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| Parental investment and parent-offspring conflict | |
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| Sexual selection | |
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| Female choice for exaggerated male traits | |
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| Why do handicaps have to be so costly? | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Cooperation Among Kin | |
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| Kin selection in humans | |
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| Rules of thumb and kin recognition | |
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| Adoption: an exception to kin selection? | |
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| Reproductive value and kin selection | |
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| Reproductive value | |
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| Kinship, homicide and child abuse | |
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| Homicide and infanticide as 'conflict assays' | |
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| Kinship and contingency | |
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| Kinship and health | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Reciprocity and Sharing | |
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| Cooperation in humans: a difference in degree or kind? | |
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| Fairness | |
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| Reciprocity and information exchange | |
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| Competitive altruism | |
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| Labour exchange and bet hedging | |
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| Food sharing among hunter-gatherers | |
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| The marginal value theorem and tolerated theft | |
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| The tragedy of the commons | |
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| Are humans inherently selfish? | |
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| How 'selfish' genes lead to non-selfish people | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Mate Choice and Sexual Selection | |
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| Universal principles of mate choice | |
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| Anisogamy | |
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| Lonely hearts advertisements: methodological considerations | |
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| Evolution of pairbonding | |
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| Sexually selected traits | |
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| WHR and body mass index | |
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| The problem of concealed ovulation | |
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| Conditional mate choice strategies | |
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| Courtship | |
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| Fitness consequences of mate choice | |
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| Changes in bridewealth among the Kipsigis | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Life-history Constraints and Reproductive Decisions | |
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| Optimising family size | |
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| Why do humans have such large brains? | |
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| Why are human babies born so early? | |
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| Impact of offspring production on parental survival | |
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| Optimality models and stochastic dynamic programming | |
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| Are !Kung birth rates low by accident rather than design? | |
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| Scheduling reproduction | |
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| For love or money | |
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| The demographic transition | |
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| The evolution of menopause | |
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| Phenotypic correlations | |
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| Celibacy and homosexuality | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Parental Investment Strategies | |
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| Conflict in the womb | |
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| Parental biases and sibling rivalry | |
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| Pregnancy sickness and parent-offspring conflict | |
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| Teaching biases and peer groups | |
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| Family environment and future reproductive strategies | |
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| Infanticide: scheduling investment | |
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| Paternity certainty and sexual jealousy | |
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| Selective infanticide and the sex ratio | |
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| Testing the Trivers-Willard hypothesis | |
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| Condition-dependent investment strategies | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Marriage and Inheritance | |
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| Matrilineal vs patrilineal inheritance | |
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| Marriage and inheritance: a phylogenetic analysis | |
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| Environmental correlates of polygyny | |
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| Resource competition and lin | |