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INDEX
abattoir, 91
abortion, 99–100
Africa, viii, xii, 1–2, 4, 37, 50, 60, 81, 85, 98
ageism, 90
agoraphobia, 93
AIDS, 3, 41, 82, 91
Akan, 89
algae, 19
Americans, 4–5, 93; Native Americans, 12
Angyal, Andres, 14
anorexia, 94
anterior insula, 77, 95
antibacterial hand gel, 84
ants, 25, 27–31, 34
Arens, William, 51
Ariely, Dan, 43
arthropods, 25
Attenborough, David, 19
autism, 95
autotrophic plants, 19
baboons, 12
bacteria, 19, 24–25, 28, 33, 55, 82; antibacterial, 32, 98; bacterial contaminants, 88; cholera, 55; salmonella, 55
Bangladesh, xii, 9, 85
barn swallow, 26, 32
Beagle (ship), 12
betrayal, vii, viii
biomass, 19
blind snakes, 33
blood, vii, viii, 3, 46, 49, 89, 93; blood injection injury phobia, 109; bloodsucking flies, 25, 28; bloodsucking mites, 25; white blood cells, 41
blue tit, 32
bowerbird, 26
brain, ix, xii, 8, 10, 13, 15–16, 34, 38, 44, 47–49, 54, 57–59, 71–72, 77, 79–80, 92, 103–4, 108
breast-feeding, 88
British Broadcasting Company (BBC), 6, 19, 40, 78
bulimia, 94
bullfrog, 23
Burkina Faso, xii, 1
butterfly, 30
California, 87
Cambodia, 85
cancer, 89
cannibalism, 24, 37–38, 47–48, 50–51, 67, 77
capuchin monkey, 25
caregiver, 91, 98
cari
bou, 29
Carter, Stephen, 54
cassidine beetle, 30
caste, vii, 31, 33, 94, 99; caste system, 13
cattle, 25–26
chicken pox, 3
child care, 41, 63
chimpanzee, 26, 32
chlamydia, 3
cholera, 3, 5, 55
Christianity, 49
cigarette, 85–86
cleaner, 32, 89, 91
Cloaca Maxima, xii
cockle, 26–7
cockroach, 3–4, 8, 27, 46, 82, 93, 99
cognitive revolution, 41, 98
colobus monkey, 23, 25
communicable disease, 2
Community-Led Total Sanitation, 85
contagion, x, 41, 46–7, 93, 106
cooperation, 23, 54, 64, 68–70, 72; super-cooperative, 69, 72, 80, 100
cooties, 99
coral, 27
corpse, 25, 28, 42, 49, 95
corruption, 14
Corréard, Alexandre, 39
cowbird, 28
cricket, 30–31
cryptosporidiosis, 3
Dagari, 89
Dalit, 88
Damasio, Antonio, 79
Darwin, Charles, 12, 14
death, 14–16, 23, 42; child death, 3, 82; death rate, xiii
deformity, 8, 14–15, 43, 104–5
dégoût, 12
desire, viii, 2, 13–14, 57, 61, 63, 94
diarrhea, 1–2, 82, 85
diphtheria, 3, 55
disabled, xi, 90
Douglas, Mary, 13–14
Down House, 12
dung, vii, viii, 28–29, 32
earthworm, 3
ectoparasite, 22, 25–27, 32–33, 56, 63, 94, 105
effect, 6, 22, 25, 43–44, 64, 71, 75–76, 100
emotion, viii, xi, 12, 14, 38, 44–46, 49–50, 65, 74, 76–77, 79–81, 86–87, 91, 97–99, 107, 109
emperor penguin, 32
encephalitis, 3, 26
environment, 9–10, 16, 19, 27–29, 31, 41, 43, 50, 54, 56, 59, 79, 92
epilepsy, 89
Erasmus, 65
Ethiopia, 23
etiquette, 54, 65
etymology, 12
exclusion, xi, xii, 59, 85–87, 109
excreta, 14, 28, 31
existential denial, 16
facial expression, vii, 75–77, 93
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