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Sex, Time, and Power

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by Leonard Shlain


  child’s understanding of

  Creative Explosion and

  funerary practices and

  greed and

  immortality notion and

  laughter and

  men’s attitude toward

  posthumous legacies and

  self-delusion and

  superstition and

  time and

  women’s attitude toward

  deeptime

  Delaney, Janice

  depression

  Derrida, Jacques

  Descartes, René

  Descent of Man, The (Darwin)

  de Waal, Frans

  Diamond, Jared

  Dickinson, Emily

  diet

  advent of fire and

  amino acids in

  carbohydrates in

  cholesterol in

  fat in

  fatty acids in

  Flynn Effect and

  glucose in

  human digestive tract and

  intelligence and

  iron in

  modern

  physiological adaptations to

  proteins in

  symbiotic relationships and

  vegetarian

  vitamin C in

  DNA

  mitochondrial

  Dogon tribe

  dolphins

  Donald, Merlin

  Donne, John

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  dowry

  Dunbar, Robin

  dyspareunia

  eating disorders

  ecology

  Eights, Theory of

  Einstein, Albert

  elephants

  Eliot, George

  Ellison, Peter T.

  embryogenesis

  Emler, Nick

  Empedocles

  endometriosis

  Engels, Frederick

  entropy, process of

  environment of early adaptiveness

  epiglottis

  episiotomy

  Erasmus

  erotica

  essential amino acids

  ESSP (exclusive same-sex preference), see homosexuality

  estrogen

  and anima-animus duality

  and cholesterol

  fibroids and

  and menopause

  menstruation and

  in puberty

  estrus

  ethnic cleansing

  Euripides

  Ever-Ready Sperm Theory

  evolution

  advent of fire and

  Biogenetic Law and

  of bipedalism

  of brain

  circadian rhythms and

  of controlled defecation

  deleterious traits and

  fear of death and

  of hominids

  of Homo sapiens

  Honest Handicap Theory of

  human-chimpanzee kinship and

  infanticide and

  punctuated equilibrium in

  runaway selection in

  sense of time and

  sentience and

  exogenetic heredity

  Expensive Tissue Hypothesis

  Falk, Dean

  fallopian tubes

  family

  family planning

  Faraday, Michael

  fat

  as sexual signal

  fatherhood

  fatty acids

  Fear of Flying (Jong)

  Ferenczi, Sandor

  fibroids

  fight-or-flight response

  fire, discovery of

  First Sex, The (Fisher)

  Fisher, Helen

  Fisher, Ronald

  Fitch, Tecumseh

  fitness

  flicker-fusion threshold

  flight distance

  Flynn, James

  Flynn Effect

  Fonteyn, Margot

  food-sharing

  foreplay, sexual

  foresight

  Tiresias myth and

  see also deeptime

  foreskin, function of

  Fox, Robin

  Franklin, Benjamin

  Free Will

  menstruation and

  Freud, Sigmund

  Frisch, Rose

  Fuegians

  funerary rites

  Galabruda, Alan

  Galen

  gallows humor

  genes

  of chimpanzees

  DNA sequence of

  for Huntington’s chorea

  “unselfish”

  Genesis, Book of

  Geschwind, Norman

  gestation

  gibbon

  glucose

  Goodall, Jane

  Good Natured (de Waal)

  gorillas

  Gould, Stephen Jay

  Grafenberg, Ernst

  Grahn, Judy

  Grandmother Theory

  greed

  Greenberg, Joseph

  Greer, Germaine

  G spot

  “G Spot, The” (Ladas, Whipple and Perry)

  Guarani tribe

  Guinness Book of World Records, The

  Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)

  Haeckel, Ernst

  Halterman, Jill

  Hamer, Dean

  Hamilton, William

  Hammurabi, King of Babylon

  Hardy, Alister

  Hartung, John

  Hawkes, Kristen

  Hazda tribe

  Heaven and Hell (Huxley)

  Hebrews, ancient

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

  heme iron

  hemoglobin

  hemorrhoids

  hermaphroditism

  monotheism and

  in mythology

  in nonhumans

  Herodotus

  Hill, Kim

  Hines, Terence

  Hippocrates

  Holloway, Ralph

  Holy Grail, myth of

  homeostasis

  Homer

  hominids

  Homo erectus

  discovery of fire and

  language development in

  toolmaking by

  Homo ergaster

  Homo habilis

  Homo heidelbergensis

  Homo neanderthalensis

  Homo sapiens

  archaic

  as biological force

  digestive tract of

  evolution of

  as global pathogen

  life expectancy of

  sexual dimorphism in

  toolmaking by

  homosexuality

  AIDS epidemic and

  anima-animus duality and

  arts, literature and

  birth rank and

  culture and

  embryonic development and

  as evolutionary adaptation

  genetic determination of

  high incidence of sexual encounters and

  in Hinduism

  in history

  homophobia and

  hunting success and

  as mental disease

  in nonhuman species

  prostitution and

  psychological factors and

  religion and

  schizophrenia and

  sociological studies of

  testosterone and

  see also hermaphroditism; lesbianism

  “honest handicap” theory

  hookworm

  Hopi Indians

  Horace

  hormone replacement therapy (HRT)

  hormones:

  emotions and

  menstruation and

  see also specific hormones

  Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer

  humor

  hunting

  baldness and

  bipedalism and

  color-blindness and

  flicker-fusion threshold and

  flight distance and

  food-sharing behavior and

  gender
skewing and

  homosexuality and

  iron acquisition and

  language development and

  left-handedness and

  male sexual drive and

  by nonhumans

  optimal group for

  Savanna Theory of

  sense of time and

  sexual favors as goal of

  Show-Off Theory of

  Huntington’s chorea

  Huxley, Aldous

  Huxley, Julian

  hyenas

  if-then algorithm

  rationality and

  Iliad (Homer)

  immortality

  incest

  infanticide

  cryptic ovulation and

  evolution and

  by primates

  internal milieu

  “Intimations of Immortality” (Wordsworth)

  Inuit Indians

  iron

  atom of

  brain development and

  chelation of

  children and depletion of

  chronic loss of, in women

  in diet

  early menarche and

  fetal development and

  gestation and

  heme

  human digestion of

  hunting and

  meat hunger and

  menarche and

  oxygen’s affinity for

  pica syndrome and

  in pregnancy

  sources of

  storage of

  as supplement in packaged foods

  vitamin C and

  irony

  Iroquois Nation

  Isaac, Glynn

  Isaiah

  Isis (Lacombe)

  “Is the Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?” (Ortner)

  Jefferson, Thomas

  “Jell-O Defense”

  Jeremiah

  Jerome, Saint

  Jesus

  Johanson, Donald

  Johnson, Samuel

  Johnson, V.E.

  Jolly, Alison

  Jong, Erica

  Juneno tribe

  Jung, Carl

  Kafka, Franz

  kamikaze sperm

  Kaplan, Hilliard

  Keith, Arthur

  Keynes, John Maynard

  Kilbrandon, Lord

  Kimura, Doreen

  Kingdon, Jonathan

  Kinsey, Alfred

  Klein, Richard

  Knight, Chris

  Konner, Melvin

  Krebs cycle

  !Kung San tribe

  Kwakiutl tribe

  Lacombe, Georges

  lactation

  see also breast-feeding

  Ladas, Alice

  Laetoli fossil footprints

  Landes, R.

  Land of the Dead

  language

  auditory constancy in

  brain and

  Creative Explosion and

  culture and

  development of

  element of time and

  handedness and

  in Homo erectus

  hunting hypothesis and

  linear sequence in

  lying, deceit and

  male-female relationship and

  as mutation

  in nonhumans

  respiration adapted to

  sexual relations and

  sexual selection and

  social relations and

  theories of

  vocal tract and

  women and development of

  Lannon, Richard

  Lao Tzu

  Laporte, Leo

  larynx

  Last Common Ancestor

  laughter

  Leakey, Richard

  LeDoux, Joseph

  Lee, Richard

  left-handedness

  Leonardo da Vinci

  lesbianism

  see also homosexuality

  Lessing, Doris

  LeVay, Simon

  Lévi-Strauss, Claude

  Lewin, Roger

  Lewis, Thomas

  Lewontin, Henry

  Lieberman, Philip

  Lilith, myth of

  limbic system

  Lind, James

  linear sequence, concept of

  Linguistic Society of Paris

  Linnaeus, Carolus

  linoleic acid

  Lion King, The (film)

  lipoproteins

  Loango tribe

  lochia

  Locke, John

  love

  between mother and son

  Lovejoy, Owen

  Lovelock, James

  Low, Bobbi

  Lucretius

  Lucy (fossil hominid)

  lunar calendars

  lunar cycles

  bipedalism and

  length of pregnancy and

  menstruation and

  moon’s ides in

  Lupton, Mary Jane

  Luther, Martin

  Lysistrata (Aristophanes)

  McClintock, Barbara

  MacLean, Paul

  McLuhan, Marshall

  Maimonides

  Malinowski, Bronislaw

  Malraux, André

  Mandango tribe

  Mangaian islanders

  “many fathers” theory

  Maoris

  March, Kathryn

  Margulis, Lynn

  Markee, J. E.

  Marlowe, Christopher

  marriage

  Marshack, Alexander

  Marx, Karl

  mass extinction

  Masters, W. H.

  masturbation

  Ever-Ready Sperm Theory of

  mate guarding

  mate selection

  Mating Mind, The (Miller)

  Mayr, Ernst von

  Mead, Margaret

  meat hunger

  Medawar, Peter

  Medea (Euripides)

  memes

  memory

  if-then equation and

  men:

  animus of, see anima-animus duality

  attitude toward death of

  attitude toward menstruation of

  capacity for love of

 

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