Sex at Dawn
by Ryan, Christopher, Ph.D.; Jetha, Cacilda, M.D.Edition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2011-07-05
Publisher(s): Perennial
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Summary
Is sexual monogamy natural to humans? By debunking many false historical notions, Ryan and Jetha offer a bold alternative in this provocative and brilliant book. The authors expose the ancient roots of human sexuality while pointing toward a more optimistic future.
Table of Contents
| Preface: A Primate Meets His Match (A note from one of the authors) | p. xi |
| Introduction: Another Well-intentioned Inquisition | p. 1 |
| A Few Million Years in a Few Pages | p. 10 |
| On The Origin Of The Specious | p. 17 |
| Remember the Yucatán! | p. 19 |
| You Are What You Eat | p. 20 |
| What Darwin Didn't Know About Sex | p. 25 |
| The Flintstonization of Prehistory | p. 31 |
| What Is Evolutionary Psychology and Why Should You Care? | p. 36 |
| Lewis Henry Morgan | p. 42 |
| A Closer Look at the Standard Narrative of Human Sexual Evolution | p. 46 |
| How Darwin Insults Your Mother (The Dismal Science of Sexual Economics) | p. 48 |
| The Famously Flaccid Female Libido | p. 51 |
| Male Parental Investment (MPI) | p. 52 |
| "Mixed Strategies" in the War Between the Sexes | p. 55 |
| Extended Sexual Receptivity and Concealed Ovulation | p. 58 |
| The Ape in the Mirror | p. 61 |
| Primates and Human Nature | p. 64 |
| Doubting the Chimpanzee Model | p. 67 |
| In Search of Primate Continuity | p. 69 |
| Lust in paradise (solitary?) | p. 79 |
| Who Lost What in Paradise? | p. 81 |
| On Getting Funky and Rockin Round the Clock | p. 83 |
| Who's Your Daddies? | p. 90 |
| The Joy of S.E.Ex. | p. 93 |
| The Promise of Promiscuity | p. 98 |
| Bonobo Beginnings | p. 101 |
| Mommies Dearest | p. 105 |
| Nuclear Meltdown | p. 109 |
| Making a Mess of Marriage, Mating, and Monogamy | p. 113 |
| Marriage: The "Fundamental Condition" of the Human Species? | p. 115 |
| On Matrimonial Whoredom | p. 119 |
| Paternity Certainty: The Crumbling Cornerstone of the Standard Narrative | p. 124 |
| Love, Lust, and Liberty at Lugu Lake | p. 126 |
| On the Inevitability of Patriarchy | p. 131 |
| The March of the Monogamous | p. 134 |
| Jealousy: A Beginner's Guide to Coveting Thy Neighbor's Spouse | p. 138 |
| Zero-Sum Sex | p. 141 |
| How to Tell When a Man Loves a Woman | p. 146 |
| The Way We Weren't | p. 151 |
| "The Wealth of Nature" (Poor?) | p. 153 |
| Poor, Pitiful Me | p. 158 |
| The Despair of Millionaires | p. 161 |
| Finding Contentment "at the Bottom of the Scale of Human Beings" | p. 163 |
| The Selfish Meme (Nasty?) | p. 166 |
| Homo Economicus | p. 166 |
| The Tragedy of the Commons | p. 169 |
| Dreams of Perpetual Progress | p. 172 |
| Ancient Poverty or Assumed Affluence? | p. 173 |
| On Paleolithic Politics | p. 176 |
| The Never-Ending Battle over Prehistoric War (Brutish?) | p. 182 |
| Professor Pinker, Red in Tooth and Claw | p. 183 |
| The Mysterious Disappearance of Margaret Power | p. 187 |
| The Spoils of War | p. 190 |
| The Napoleonic Invasion (The Yanomami Controversy) | p. 194 |
| The Desperate Search for Hippie Hypocrisy and Bonobo Brutality | p. 197 |
| The Longevity Lie (Short?) | p. 200 |
| When Does Life Begin ? When Does It End? | p. 202 |
| Is 80 the New 30? | p. 204 |
| Stressed to Death | p. 208 |
| Who You Calling a Starry-Eyed Romantic, Pal? | p. 210 |
| Bodies In Motion | p. 213 |
| Little Big Man | p. 215 |
| All's Fair in Love and Sperm War | p. 219 |
| The Truest Measure of a Man | p. 225 |
| Hard Core in the Stone Age | p. 231 |
| Sometimes a Penis Is Just a Penis | p. 233 |
| The Prehistory of O | p. 244 |
| "What Horrid Extravagancies ofMinde!" | p. 246 |
| Beware the Devil's Teat | p. 252 |
| The Force Required to Suppress It | p. 253 |
| When Girls Go Wild | p. 255 |
| Female Cofulatory Vocalization | p. 255 |
| Sin Tetas, No Hay Paraíso | p. 259 |
| Come Again? | p. 262 |
| Men are from Africa, Women are From Africa | p. 269 |
| On Mona Lisa's Mind | p. 271 |
| The Pervert's Lament | p. 280 |
| Just Say What? | p. 285 |
| Kelloggs Guide to Child Abuse | p. 288 |
| The Curse of Calvin Coolidge | p. 293 |
| The Perils of Monotomy (Monogamy+ Monotony) | p. 293 |
| Confronting the Sky Together | p. 306 |
| Everybody Out of the Closet | p. 311 |
| The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon | p. 311 |
| AuthorÆs Note | p. 313 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 315 |
| Notes | p. 317 |
| References and Suggested Further Reading | p. 351 |
| Index | p. 383 |
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