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INDEX

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Page numbers in
italics
refer to tables and illustrations Abbey, Edward, 98

Abideen, Suhaila Zein al-, 119–20

abstinence, 283–84

Aché, 91–92, 119, 205, 206, 320n

açia
relationships, 129

Acton, Dr. William (Lord), 39, 51

Adam and Eve, 35, 81–82

Adapted Mind, The
(Barkow, Cosmides, and Tooby, eds.), 50–51

adolescents,
66,
282–85, 344n

adultery, 97–98, 121–22, 138, 142, 290, 338n Adult Video Universe, 231

affluenza, 161–62

Africa, 106, 149, 159, 207, 241, 327n, 330n, 332n aggression, 72, 129

of chimps, 64, 68, 70, 76, 189

of humans, 68, 71, 76

of monkeys, xi-xiii, 176

see also
violence; war

agriculture, 12–15,
13,
21, 81–83, 87, 180, 211

harems and, 218

health and, 173, 175, 206–7

population growth and, 9, 33, 154, 156, 158, 169

radical change and, 9, 246

transition from foraging to, 8, 83, 173–75, 319n, 328n war and, 191–92, 193

wealth disparities and, 162

Ainley, David, 135

Alamo, the, 19, 24

Alcmene, 228

Alexander, Michele, 277

Alkon, Amy, 26

alpha males, 10, 59–60

Alzheimer’s disease, 298

Amazon, 11, 90–91, 96, 103, 121, 125–26, 144, 184,
308n,
340n

American Journal of Cardiology,
209

American Medical Association, 2, 287

American Society of Plastic Surgery, 259

Amphitryon, 228

anal sex, 283

Anatomist, The
(Andahazi), 251

Anatomy of Love, The
(Fisher), 74, 114

Andahazi, Federico, 251

Anderson, Terry, 84, 319
n
–20
n
Angier, Natalie, 168, 258–59

Angus, Ian, 170

Anokhin, Andrey, 274

anonymity, 171–72

Antarctica, 134–35

anthropology, 9, 11, 12, 15, 90–92, 105, 106, 108, 171, 185, 203, 340
n

misinterpretation, misunderstanding and, 113, 116, 117, 118, 127, 133, 134, 137

antidepressants, 299

antigens, 228, 264

ape anatomy, multiple comparisons of,
224

apes, great, 61–78,
62

humans as, 1, 315n

penis lengths of, 235–36,
235

social organization among,
65–66

sperm competition among,
230

see also
bonobos; chimpanzees; gorillas; orangutans appearance, physical:

female, 47,
139,
140

male, 47, 55, 140

Appell, G. N., 169

Aquinas, Thomas, 252

archaeology, 14, 173, 193, 201, 205, 243, 316n, 327n
Ardipithecus ramidus,
216–17, 336n–37n Aristotle, 228

Armelagos, George, 174

Arrowood, Patricia C., 257–58

Asante, 192–93

Asia, 207, 241, 242, 327n

attraction, sexual, 41, 57, 96, 123

attractiveness, male, 55, 275

Australia, 185, 238

Aborigines in, 11, 21–22, 164–65, 176, 185, 203

Australopithecus,
336n

Axelrod, Robert, 168

Aztecs, 192–93

baboons, 59,
62,
63, 65, 72, 116, 178–79

copulation calls of, 257, 258

gelada, 261, 339n

Bailey, Michael, 276–77

Baker, Robin R., 264, 338n, 342n

Baker Brown, Isaac, 250–51, 285

Balzac, Honoré de, 115

Barash, David, 225, 342n

Barcelona, 244

Bari, the, 320n

Barlow, John Perry, 318n

Barnes, Cynthia, 130–31, 134

Bateman, A. J., 51

BBC, 116, 161, 204, 235, 271, 276

Beach, Frank, 96

Beagle,
HMS, 26, 31, 164, 181

Beckerman, Stephen, 90–91, 92, 103, 308n beef, 237, 242

Bellis, Mark, 264, 338n, 342n

Belliveau, Jeannette, 289

Bergner, Daniel, 273, 343n

Berman, Morris, 68

Bernard, Jessie, 295

Bernays, Edward, 345n

Berns, Gregory S., 168

betrayal, 4, 167–68, 297, 300

Betzig, Laura, 112

Beyond War
(Fry), 193

Bhutan, 221–22

Bible, 81–82, 98, 138, 205, 233–34, 325n Genesis in, 35, 163, 233

life span in, 53

Psalms in, 200

Bird-David, Nurit, 174

birds, 36, 118, 136–37, 243

Birdsell, Joseph, 203

Birkhead, Tim, 54

birth control, 40, 57

birth control pills, 76, 275, 343n, 344n bisexuality, 276–77

bluebirds, 136

Bodley, John, 171–72

body fat, low, 159

body-size dimorphism, 215–19, 222,
224,
242, 336n–37n body-weight ratios, 205

Boehm, Christopher, 179

Bogucki, Peter, 100, 243

Bolivia, 145

Bolton, Michael, 146

bonding, 104, 149, 171, 308

female-female, 65,
78

group, 315n

mother-child, 106–7

in social organization of apes,
65–66

bone studies, 193, 201, 202, 204–5, 216–17

health and, 173–74, 175

bonobos, 61–65,
62,
69–75, 82, 216–20, 222, 224,
230,
239, 246, 258, 336n

body-size dimorphism in, 216–19

chimps compared with, 69–72,
77–78,
97, 101

copulation duration in, 236,
236

female sexual capacity of, 58, 69, 72–74, 101,
102,
239, 268

group sex of, 12

human erotic response to, 272, 273

humans compared with, 1, 61–62, 63, 69, 72–74,
77–78,
85, 97, 101–2,
102,
134, 225, 234, 240, 242, 243, 245–46, 260, 320n, 332n

multimale-multifemale mating systems of, 45,
66

penis of, 235, 339n

separation of chimps from, 62, 74, 318n

social organization of, 63–64,
65–66,
191

swellings of, 260, 261–62,
261

testicles of, 220, 222, 223, 225, 226–27, 234, 240

warfare and, 186–87, 197–98, 332n

Borman, Frank, 334n

Botswana, 11, 119, 176, 206

Bowlby, John, 29

brain, 8, 140, 171, 205, 216, 274, 319n

Bailey’s fMRI scans of, 276–77

big, 34, 84, 85, 94

cooperation and, 168

of vampire bats, 100

Brazil, 96, 103, 119, 121

infant deaths in, 203

breastfeeding, 7, 13, 42, 77, 111, 159, 259–60, 328n, 342n sharing of, 11, 105

breasts, 13, 35,
224,
259–62, 337n, 342n augmentation of, 259, 342n

Bristol, University of, 238

Brooks, Nick, 327

Brown, Janelle, 260

Bruhn, John, 162

Bryan, William Jennings, 182

Bubonic plague, 207

bukkake,
338n

bulla,
233

bulusela,
346n

Burkino Faso, 105–6