Preface : a primate meets his match (a note from one of the authors)
Introduction : another well-intentioned inquisition
A few million years in a few pages
pt. I. On the origin of the specious
1. Remember the Yucatán!
2. What Darwin didn't know about sex
The Flintstonization of prehistory
What is evolutionary psychology and why should you care?
3. A closer look at the standard narrative of human sexual evolution
How Darwin insults your mother (the dismal science of sexual economics)
The famously flaccid female libido
Male parental investment (MPI)
"Mixed strategies" in the war between the sexes
Extended sexual receptivity and concealed ovulation
Primates and human nature
Doubting the chimpanzee model
In search of primate continuity
pt. II. Lust in paradise (solitary?)
5. Who lost what in paradise?
On getting funky and rockin' round the clock
The promise of promiscuity
8. Making a mess of marriage, mating, and monogamy
Marriage : the "fundamental condition" of the human species?
9. Paternity certainty : the crumbling cornerstone of the standard narrative
Love, lust, and liberty at Lugu Lake
On the inevitability of patriarchy
The march of the monogamous
10. Jealousy : a beginner's guide to coveting thy neighbor's spouse
How to tell when a man loves a woman
pt. III. The way we weren't
11. "The wealth of nature" (poor?)
The despair of millionaires
Finding contentment "at the bottom of the scale of human beings"
12. The selfish meme (nasty?)
The tragedy of the commons
Dreams of perpetual progress
Ancient poverty or assumed affluence?
13. The never-ending battle over prehistoric war (brutish?)
Professor Pinker, red in tooth and claw
The mysterious disappearance of Margaret Power
The Napoleonic invasion (the Yanomami controversy)
The desperate search for hippie hypocrisy and bonobo brutality
14. The longevity lie (short?)
When does life begin? When does it end?
Who you calling a starry-eyed romantic, pal?
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
"What horrid extravagancies of minde!"
The force required to suppress it
Female copulatory vocalization
Sin tetas, no hay paraíso
pt. V. Men are from Africa, women are from Africa
Kellogg's guide to child abuse
The curse of Calvin Coolidge
The perils of monotomy (monogamy + monotony)
A few more reasons I need somebody new (just like you)
22. Confronting the sky together
Everybody out of the closet
The marriage of the Sun and the Moon.