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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

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)