Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships    Compare

Table of Contents/ List of Topics Covered:

On The Origin Of The Specious
1. Remember the Yucatan!
- You Are What You Eat

2. What Darwin Didn't Know About Sex
- The Flintstonization of Prehistory
- What Is Evolutionary Psychology and Why Should You Care?
- Lewis Henry Morgan

3. A Closer Look at the Standard Narrative of Human Sexual Evolution
- How Darwin Insults Your Mother
- The Famously Flaccid Female Libido
- Male Parental Investment
- 'Mixed Strategies' in the War Between the Sexes
- Extended Sexual Receptivity and Concealed Ovulation

4. The Ape in the Mirror
- Primates and Human Nature
- Doubting the Chimpanzee Model
- In Search of Primate Continuity

Lust In Paradise (Solitary?)
5. Who Lost What in Paradise?
- On Getting Funky and Rockin' Round the Clock

6. Who's Your Daddies?
- The Joy of S.E.Ex.
- The Promise of Promiscuity
- Bonobo Beginnings

7. Mommies Dearest
- Nuclear Meltdown

8. Making a Mess of Marriage, Mating, and Monogamy
- Marriage: The 'Fundamental Confidion' of the Human Species?
- On Matrimonial Whoredom

9. Paternity Certainty: The Crumbling Cornerstone of the Standard Nattative
- Love, Lust, and Liberty at Lugu Lake
- On the Inevitability of Patriarchy
- The March of the Monogamous

10. Jealousy: A beginner's Guide to Coverting Thy Neighbor's Spouse
- Zero-Sum Sex
- How to Tell When a Man Loves a Woman

The Way We Weren't
11. 'The Wealth of Nature' (Poor?)
- Poor, Pitiful Me
- The Despair of Millionaired
- Finding Contentment 'at the Bottom of the Scale of Human Beings'

12. The Selfish Meme (Nasty?)
- Homo Economocus
- The Tragedy of the Commons
- Dreams of Perpetual Progress
- Ancient Poverty or Assumed Affluence?
- On Paleolithic Politics

13. The Never-Ending Battle over Prehistoric War (Brutish?)
- Professor Pinker, Red in Tooth and Claw
- The Mysterious Disappearance of Margaret Power
- The Spoils of War
- The Napoleonic Invasion (The Yanomami Controversy)
- The Desperate Search for Hippie Hypocrisy and Banobo Brutality

14. The Longevity Lie (Short?)
- When Does Life Begin? When Does It End?
- Is 80 the New 30?
- Stressed to Death
- Who You Calling a Starry-Eyed Romantic, Pal?

Bodies In Motion
15. Little Big Man
- All's Fair in Love and Sperm War

16. The Truest Measure of a Man
- Hard Core in the Stone Age

17. Sometimes a Penis Is Just a Penis

18. The Prehistory of O
- 'What Horrid Extravagancies of Minde!'
- Beware the Devil's Teat
- The Force Required to Suppress It

19. When Girls Go Wild
- Female Copulatory Vocalization
- Sin Tetas, No Hay Paraiso
- Come Again?

Men Are From Africa, Women Are From Africa
20. On Mona Lisa's Mind

21. The Pervert's Lament
- Just Say What?
- Kellogg's Guide to Child Abuse
- The Curse of Calvin Coolidge
- The Perils of Monotomy
- A Few More Reasons I Need Somebody New

22. Confronting the Sky Together
- Everybody Out of the Closet
- The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon

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