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Index
ability to acquire resources
adaptations, product of evolution
Adapted Mind: Evolutionary
Psychology and the Generation of Culture, The (Barkow Cosmides, and Tooby)
adaptive behavior
advanced industrialized nations and number of children
advertisements, ideal female beauty
affairs by politicians (male)
age domestic violence, wife’s age
ideal female beauty
men and their mates
“Age and Explanation of Crime” (Hirschi and Gottfredson)
age-crime curve
(Bill Gates, Paul McCartney, and criminals)
age-genius curve
“agency-detector mechanism” (“animistic bias”)
agrarian society, natural selection
Alexander, Gerianne M.
allegations, paternal resemblance
Allied occupation in Germany and Japan
ancestral environment (environment of evolutionary adaptedness)
Anderson, Pamela
animal protein consumption
animals, people are
“animistic bias” (“the agency-detector mechanism”)
anisogamy
anthropomorphism
As Good as It Gets (film)
Asperger’s syndrome
autism, “extreme male brain,”
Bacall, Lauren
Bancroft, Anne
Barak, Ehud
barbecuing, men’s responsibility
Bardot, Brigitte
Barkow, Jerome H.
Baron-Cohen, Simon
beauty not in the eye of beholder or skin-deep
sex ratio at birth and
women vs. men
See also sex and mating
Berghe, Pierre van den
Betzig, Laura L.
Big Sleep, The (film)
bilateral symmetry, faces
biology, humans exempt from
birds and marriage
birth order, siblings
blank slate (tabula rasa), human nature as
blonde bombshells (Barbie)
blue eyes
Boas, Franz
Bogart, Humphrey
Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives (Sulloway)
Boyer, Pascal
brain exception to evolution
nothing special about
Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women (Moir and Jessel)
brain types empathizers (female brain)
political and economic inequalities
sex ratio at birth
systemizers (male brain)
Branson, Sir Richard
breasts (large)
Brown, Donald E.
Browne, Kingsley R.
Buss, David M.
byproduct of adaptations, religion
“cads” vs. “dads,”
Campbell, Anne
Chagnon, Napoleon
Charade (film)
Chief Seattle (Duwamish Indians)
childless people
children attractive faces preference
babies
resembling fathers
killing
loving their parents
possible number of
child
support
chimpanzees, promiscuity, testes size
Chomsky, Noam
Christenfeld, Nicholas J. S.
Cinderella Effect
Citizen Kane (film)
Clinton, Bill
Cody, Iron Eyes (“the crying Indian,” Espera Oscar DeCorti)
cognitive biases (he said, she said)
Coming of Age in Samoa (Mead)
competition, costs/benefits
Connery, Sean
conservatives and naturalistic fallacy
cooperation, calculations behind
corsets, popularity of<
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Cosmides, Leda
courtship gifts
crime and violence
age-crime curve (Bill Gates
Paul
McCartney, and criminals)
age-genius curve
age of wife, domestic violence
choice for sex, female’s
competition, costs/benefits
cuckoldry and
cultural universals
death
penalty
domestic violence
gay men and sex
homicides
human universals,
“invariant” age-crime curve
killing children
marriage and productivity
midlife crisis myth
norms against
parenthood, cost of
competition
polygyny and
property crimes
rape
reproductive success and
risk-aversiveness of women
scientists and marriage
social control theorists
“staying alive” theory of female criminality
stepparents, dangers of
Syrian women and crime
theft vs. robbery
trivial altercations, homicides
uxoricide (killing
of one’s wife)
violence
cuckoldry crime and violence
evolutionary psychology
family
marriage
cultural determinism
cultural ornamentation
cultural universality
culture, influence of
custodial parents
“dads” vs. “cads,”
Daly, Martin
Davis, Bernard
deadbeat dads vs. moms
death penalty
diamonds, a girl’s best friend
Diaz, Cameron
discriminative parental solicitude
divorce family
polygyny and
sex and mating
sons and likelihood of
domain-specific adaptations
domestic violence
dumb, blondes as
dying hair blond
earnings, inequalities
Eastwood, Clint
economic inequalities. See political and
economic inequalities
Elizalde, Manuel
Ellis, Bruce J.
empathizers (female brain)
empirical generalizations
employer discrimination (“glass ceiling”)
Entrapment (film)
environmental determinists
environment and evolutionary
psychology
environment of evolutionary adaptedness
(ancestral environment)
Error Management Theory
Essential Difference, The (Baron-Cohen)
ethnic and nationalist conflict
ethnocentrism
evidence for evaluating science
evolutionary biology,
evolutionary psychology
adaptations, product of evolution
adaptive behavior
ancestral environment
(environment of evolutionary adaptedness)
animals, people are
brain of human, nothing special about
cuckoldry
defined
domain-specific adaptations
environment and (psychological adaptations)
fats preference
growth of human evolution,
slowness of
human nature and
innate human nature
macro vs. micro issues
maladaptive adaptations
natural selection, stability for
Savanna Principle
sexual jealousy, male
Stone Age body and brain
sweets preference
TV and friendships
See also crime and violence; evolutionary psychology, tough questions; family; marriage; men and women, differences; political and economic inequalities; religion and group conflict; sex and mating; Standard Social Science Model
evolutionary psychology, tough questions
advanced industrialized nations and number of children
barbecuing, men’s responsibility
birth order
and siblings
childless people
children, loving their parents
cultural universality and
discriminative parental solicitude
genetic basis for fertility behavior
genetic roots of homosexuality
group socialization theory
homosexuality
“horny sister hypothesis,”
evolutionary psychology (continued ) killing own children
meat carving, men’s responsibility
parental socialization, effect on children
remote control, channel surfing
reproductive success and
siblings, differences among
soldiers, dying for their country
suicide
tan, attractiveness of
See also evolutionary psychology evolution stops at the neck
evolved psychological
mechanisms
(psychological adaptations)
exception that proves the rule
exotic cultures (hoaxes)
experiences and human nature
extra-pair sex partners
extravagant gifts, worthless
“extreme male brain,”
autism
eye color
Fa’amu, Fa’apua’a
facial attractiveness
facial averageness
family
allegations of
paternal resemblance
babies resembling fathers
beautiful people and sex ratio at birth
beauty, women vs. men
brain types and sex ratio at birth
children, killing
child support
Cinderella Effect
cuckoldry
custodial parents
deadbeat dads vs. moms
divorce
generalized Trivers-Willard hypothesis
last name (father’s), given to child
marital status and proportion of kin in personal network
“Mommy’s baby, Daddy’s maybe,”
parental investment in children
paternal resemblance
personal networks
pheromones
from unrelated men and pubertal timing of girls
physical attractiveness and sex ratio at birth
pubertal timing of girls
and marital status of parents
relationships, women vs. men
sex ratio at birth
size of parents, sex ratio at
birth
Standard Social Science Model
stepparents, dangers of
Trivers-Willard hypothesis
violence and sex ratio at birth
See also evolutionary psychology; marriage; monogamy; polygyny fantasies (sexual)
fats
preference
Fawcett, Farrah
feminists and inequalities
fertility of blonde bombshells
firstborns
first day of life, sex differences
fitness ceiling
fitness floor
fitness variance
flowers as gifts
Ford, Harrison
fraternal polyandry
fruit flies
Gallup, Gordon G.
Gambetta, Diego
Gangestad, Steven W.
Gates, Bill
gay men and sex
See also homosexuality gender socialization
generalized Trivers-Willard
hypothesis
genetic bas
is for fertility behavior
genetic determinists
genetic roots of homosexuality
genitals (male) and female promiscuity
Gentle Tasaday, The (Nance)
“glass ceiling” (employer discrimination)
gold diggers
gorillas, promiscuity, testes size
Gottfredson, Michael R.
Graduate, The (film)
Grant, Cary
group conflict. See religion and group conflict group socialization theory
Guthrie, Stewart Elliott
hair and ideal female beauty
Hamas
Hamer, Dean
Hamilton, William D.
handsome men, bad husbands
Hargens, Lowell L.
Harris, Judith Rich
Harris, Marvin
Haselton, Martie G.
health, assessing
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