Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going

Preface\nAcknowledgments\nIn the Beginning\nThe Birth of a Chimera\nThe Rise and Fall of Dawson\'s Dawn Man\nLucy in the Sky with Diamonds\nThe Tree of Life\nThe Enigma of the Little Handy Man\nThe Dawn of Technology\nTools for What?\nMeat\nAfrican Genesis Revisited\nKnapper, Butcher, Scavenger, Hunter\nThe Enigma of H. Erectus\nHeat, Hair, Sweat, and Marathons\nThe Brain Begins to Think\nRudimentary Cultures\nLinguistic Takeoff\nPrimitive Languages?\nApe-Signs\nThe Triumph of Sound\nOn Being Neandertal\nNeandertal\'s Fate and the Origin of Our Kind\nCulture Overshadowing\nAncestors\nHow Old Are the Races?\nHow Our Skins Got Their Color\nWhy Africa Lags\nDo the Races Differ in Intelligence?\nA Different Kind of Selection\nTo Breathe\nTo Drink\nTo Eat\nWhy We Eat Too Much\nWhy We Feast\nWhy We Get Fat\nInnate Tastes\nAcquired Tastes\nOne for the Genes\nSexual Pleasure\nCarnal Ignorance\nAnd Now for Something Completely Different\nWhy Women Have Perennially Enlarged Breasts\nGiving and Taking\nHow Many Mates?\nGenes Against Incest?\nThe Myth of the Great Taboo\nThe Myth of the Procreative Imperative\nHow Many Children?\nReproductive Failure\nThe Need to Be Loved\nWhy Homosexuality?\nMale with Male\nFemale with Female\nSperm Versus Egg?\nStolen Pleasures\nAre Men More Aggressive Than Women?\nOf Tomboy Girls and Penis-at-Twelve Boys\nMind, Math, and the Senses\nSex, Hunting, and Deadly Force\nFemale Warriors?\nWar and Sexism\nWhy War?\nMeat, Nuts, and Cannibals\nA Dissertation on Fatty Meat\nGame Wars?\nHungry Papuans\nWhere Women Rule the Roost\nWomen Up, Women Down\nHoes, Plows, and Computers\nWhy Do Women Live Longer Than Men?\nThe Hidden Cost of Machismo\nWas There Life Before Chiefs?\nHow to Be a Headman\nCoping with Freeloaders\nFrom Headman to Big Man\nThe Birth of the Great Providers\nWhy We Crave Prestige\nWhy We Consume Conspicuously\nWhy Yuppies?\nFrom Big Man to Chief\nPower: Was It Seized or Given?\nThe Threshold of the State\nThe First States\nWhy We Became Religious\nThe Evolution of the Spirit World\nThe Basic Animistic Rituals\nDivine Exchanges\nMeat Offerings\nHuman Sacrifice\nThe Gods Who Would Not Eat People\nThe Gods Who Ate People\nThe Nonkilling Religions\nThe Origin of Nonkilling Religions\nHow the Nonkilling Religions Spread\nA Chinese Puzzle\nThe Future of Belief and Disbelief\nDid History Repeat Itself?\nHow the Second Earth Began\nThe Evolution of the Second Earth\nThe Pharaohs of the Andes\nWhy the First Earth Conquered the Second\nCultural Discontents and the Knowing Mind\nWill Our Kind Survive?\nNotes and References\nBibliography\nIndex