circumcision and
control of women by; see also bride-barter
hunting and sexual drive of
masturbation by
mother-son love and
orgasm of
posthumous legacies and
postpubescent
sexual foreplay and
sexual goals of
see also anima-animus duality; relationships
Menaker, Abraham
Menaker, Walter
menarche
anovulatory cycles and
cultural rituals and
iron and
libido in
myelination of brain and
sexual dimorphism and
see also puberty
menopause
circumcision and
crone life phase and
Grandmother Theory of
HRT and
increased libido in
onset of
physiological changes in
in primates
menorrhagia
menstruation
anemia and
anovulatory cycles in
bipedalism and
blood and iron loss in
after breast-feeding
cancer and
culture-nature distinction and
endometriosis and
fat reserves and
free will and
hormonal changes in
in hunter-gatherer societies
hygienic problems of
infections and
iron homeostasis in
libido in
linguistic and cultural correlations with
lunar cycles and
men’s attitudes toward
men’s fear of
in nonhumans
odor and
ovulation and
paramenstrum and
physiological changes in
predation and
psychological component of
self-esteem and
sense of time and, see time
sexual relations and
synchronized, see synchronized menstruation
testosterone and
uterus in
see also menarche
Michelangelo
Mill, John Stuart
Miller, Geoffrey
Milton, John
misogyny
in contemporary society
culture-nature distinction and
definition of
in non-Western cultures
puberty and
testosterone and
in Western culture
see also patriarchy
Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
Mithin, Stephen
Mitochondrial African Eve, see African Eve
mitochondrial DNA
Mittelschmerz
Molecules of Emotion (Pert)
monogamy
monotheism
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico
Morgan, Elaine
Moro, Ernst
Moro reflex
Morris, Desmond
Mother Nature (Hrdy)
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)
Muhammad
mutations
behavioral responses to
Creative Explosion and
language as
myelin
Myth of Sisyphus, The (Camus)
mythology
hermaphroditism in
time in
Nabokov, Vladimir
Naked Ape, The (Morris)
National Nutritional Advisory Board
natural selection
fitness and
free will and
vegetarianism and
and women’s capacity for sex
see also sexual selection
nature-vs.-nurture debate
Navajo Indians
Neanderthals
neocortex
neomammalian brain
Newton, Isaac
Nicholson, Paula
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nightingale, Florence
Nin, Anaïs
nirvana
Nolan, Steve
Noonan, Katherine
NPR
nutrition, see diet
“obstetrical dilemma”
Odyssey (Homer)
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oefner, Peter
Ojibwa Indians
On Human Nature (Wilson)
orgasm
bipedalism and
breast-feeding and
in childbirth
circumcision and
Coolidge Effect and
Cuddles Theory of
frustration and
G spot and
man-woman relationship and
mate selection and
men’s sexual goals and
mistiming of
multiple
in nonhuman females
Pole Ax Theory of
romance and
timing of
uneven distribution of, among women
Upsuck Theory of
Origins Reconsidered (Leakey and Lewin)
Ortega y Gasset, José
Ortner, Sherry
Osler, William
ovaries
ovulation
hidden, see cryptic ovulation
own-kill taboo
oxygen
iron’s affinity for
oxytocin
paleomammalian brain
Pan paniscus, see bonobos
Pan troglodytes, see chimpanzees
paramenstrum
Pascal, Blaise
paternity
awareness of
bride-barter and
fatherhood and
in indigenous peoples
manhood and
partible
personal responsibility and
and power to name
recognition of mortality and
relationship between sexes and
wisdom, knowledge and
women’s knowledge of
patriarchy
definition of
persistence of
resentment of women and
testosterone and
see also misogyny
Patton, George
Paul, Saint
Pauling, Linus
Pavlov, Ivan
pelvis, bipedal
penis
vulnerability of
Perry, John
Pert, Candace
Peterson, Dale
Pfeiffer, John
pharynx
pheromones
photosynthesis
Piaget, Jean
pica syndrome
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde)
Pinker, Steven
placenta
Plains Indians
Plato
pleiotropism
Pliny
Plutarch
Pole Ax Theory
polyps
pornography
Potts, Malcolm
Power, Camilla
pregnancy:
amino acids and
birth control and
fatty acids and
hemorrhoids and
in hunter-gatherer societies
iron and
length of
lunar cycles and
meat hunger in
prolonged childhood and
serial
sex determination in
Prehistory of the Mind, The (Mithin)
premature ejaculation
primates
color vision in
estrus in
hominid
hunting by
infanticide by
masturbation in
menopause in
menstruation in
> monogamy in
sexual dimorphism in
social arrangements of
stereoscopic vision in
see also bonobos; chimpanzees; gorillas
Profet, Margie
progesterone
Prometheus, myth of
prostitution
proteins
“prudent mother hypothesis”
psychic hermaphroditism
puberty
group play and
initiation rites in
masturbation in
misogyny and
myelination of brain and
postpubescent males and
sexual dimorphism and
sexual identity and
testosterone and
see also menarche
Pueblo Indians
punctuated equilibrium
Purifications (Empedocles)
Quest for the Holy Grail, myth of
rape
as rare sexual strategy
reason
red blood cells
life span of
Redgrove, Peter
Red Queen, The (Ridley)
reductionism
relationships:
anima-animus duality and
asymmetry of
commitment and
and control of women’s sexuality
cooperation and
courtship and
cryptic ovulation and
division of labor in
evolutionary bottleneck and
family and
fatherhood and
Homo sapiens’ metamorphosis as a species and
incest taboo and
language and
love and
male aggression and
and male’s qualifications as mate
marriage and
menopause and
orgasm and
paternity and
small talk and
technology and
see also anima-animus duality; men; misogyny; women
religion:
circumcision and
homosexuality and
see also superstition
Rich, Adrienne
Ridley, Matt
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Rodwell-Wilton, Sue
romance
Rosenberg, Karen
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rubinstein, Boris
runaway selection
language development and
Russell, Bertrand
Sahtouris, Elizabet
Sanger, Margaret
Santayana, George
Sappho
Sartre, Jean-Paul
satori
Savanna Theory
schizophrenia
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schreiner, Olive
science
self, concept of
self-awareness
self-delusion
death and
humor and
Selfish Gene, The (Dawkins)
Selye, Hans
semantics
semiessential amino acids
sentience
Sentinel Behavior, Theory of
sequential hermaphroditism
Seven Tables of Creation, The
sexual dimorphism
during puberty
synchronized menstruation and
sexual selection
baldness and
development of language and
fitness and
see also natural selection
Shakespeare, William
Shaler, Nathaniel
Sharanhua tribe
Shekina, concept of
Sherfey, Mary Jane
Short, Roger
Show-Off Theory
Shuttle, Penelope
Sibley, Charles
siblingcide
simultaneous hermaphroditism
Siriono tribe
Siskind, Janet
Sisyphus, myth of
Small, Meredith
Smuts, Barbara
Socrates
Sophocles
soul
species
speech, see language
Spock, Benjamin
Stanford, Craig
Stein, Gertrude
Strassman, Beverly
stress
subincision
suicide
Sung Ping Law
superstition:
afterlife and
ancestor worship and
anxiety and
death and
mortuary rites and
self-deception and
Susu tribe
Suzuki, D. T.
Swaab, Richard
Swift, Jonathan
symbiosis
Symons, Donald
Symposium, The (Plato)
synchronized menstruation
and selection of males
sexual dimorphism and
syntax
tapeworm
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich
technology
man-woman relationship and
Tennyson, Alfred
testosterone
anima-animus duality and
baldness and
embryonic sex determination in
homosexuality and
menstruation and
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