Sex at dawn The prehistoric origins of modern sexuality
Book - 2010
"A controversial, idea-driven book that challenges everything you know about sex, marriage, family, and society"--Provided by publisher.
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- Published
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New York :
Harper
[2010]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xiii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-380) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780061707803
- 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
- Part I. On the Origin of the Specious
- 1. Remember the Yucatán!
- 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 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
- 4. The Ape in the Mirror
- Primates and Human Nature
- Doubting the Chimpanzee Model
- In Search of Primate Continuity
- Part II. 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 Condition" of the Human Species?
- On Matrimonial Whoredom
- 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
- Zero-Sum Sex
- How to Tell When a Man Loves a Woman
- Part III. The Way we Weren't
- 11. "The Wealth of Nature" (Poor?)
- Poor, Pitiful Me
- The Despair of Millionaires
- Finding Contentment "at the Bottom of the Scale of Human Beings"
- 12. The Selfish Meme (Nasty?)
- Homo Economicus
- 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 Bonobo 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?
- Part IV. 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 Paraíso
- Come Again?
- Part V. 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 (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
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References and Suggested Further Reading
- Index