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Harvard Business School, 253–54, 276–77

Harvard University, 265

Haselton, Martie, 124–25

Hassan, Maggie, 235

Hatfield, Elaine, 223–24

Hawaii, 168, 235

Hawkes, Kristen, 131, 143

hawks, 87

heads of state, 234, 236–37, 283

“Health Versus Fitness” (Lambert), 150

Heitkamp, Heidi, 282–83

Helen, 98, 162–63, 196

hemorrhage, 243

Henry, Amanda, 143

Henry, Amy, 107

herding, 175

herding and gardening, polygyny in, 168, 169

“heritability,” 38–39

hermaphrodites, 24, 59–61

Heuer, Berys, 168

Hewlett-Packard, 232

Hindus, 165–66, 168, 241

Hines, Melissa, 37, 228

hippocampus, 228

Hirono, Mazie, 235

HIV/AIDS epidemic, 243–46, 255–56

Hobbes, Thomas, 175–76

Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot, 208

Hohmann, Gottfried, 114–15

Holekamp, Kay, 88

Hollywood Madam, 227

homicides, 42–43, 139, 160–61

“honor” killings, 248

hookup culture, 218–22, 277

hookups, 222, 227, 275

Hopkins, William, 93

Horace Mann School, 270

hormones, 3, 26–34, 38, 42, 45, 60, 62–64, 66–67, 77, 80–81, 89, 97, 107, 115, 125–26, 200, 212–13, 215, 228–29

horns, 83

Hour of Code, An, 265

House Ethics Committee, 270

House of Representatives, U.S., 232, 235

Howar, Barbara, 217

Howell, Nancy, 132, 138

Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 98–99, 100, 103, 105, 108, 127, 132

Huchard, Elise, 97

human genome, 112, 117

human mating,
see
mating, human

Human Relations Area Files, 203

humans, 119–20

courtship among, 80–81

environments of, 120

as pair-bonding, 75, 79

human sacrifices, 156

human twinning, 100–101

hunter-gatherers, 119–20, 124, 128, 129, 130–31, 132–34, 141–42, 148, 149, 150, 151, 158, 159, 160, 174, 180, 183, 304

diets of, 141–42

division of labor in, 142–43

gender equality in, 130

homicides in, 161

involved fathers in, 143

lives of women in, 142

polyandry in, 127

polygyny in, 167–68, 169

social structure of, 125

violence in, 145

hunting, 87, 88, 110, 129, 131, 135, 136, 142, 158, 160, 174, 175, 212

by women, 153

Hyde, Janet Shibley, 224

hyenas, 88–90, 97

hypothalamus, 29, 34, 63, 81, 213, 229

I Am Powerful campaign, 253–54

IBM, 232

“Iceman,” 161

identical twins, 38–39, 40

“I Have a Dream” speech (King), 235

Iliad
, 162–63, 169

Illinois, 270

Ilongot (people), 160

immunity, 53

Imperato-McGinley, Julianne, 35

Inca (people), 147, 168

India, 166, 183, 236, 239, 240, 242, 248, 250, 251, 253, 254, 255, 258, 299

rapes in, 247–48, 249

Indonesia, 152, 251

Industrial Revolution, 192

infanticide, 99, 106, 107, 184

among chimps, 109

infant mortality, 131, 238

infidelity, 24, 180

initiation rites, 137

Insel, Thomas, 92, 209

intellectual development disorder, 209

interbirth intervals, 150

internal gestation, 86–87

International Criminal Court, 271

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 271

International Game Technology, 233

International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, 194–95

International Monetary Fund, 268

International Office of Public Hygiene, 21–22

International Princess Project, 258

In the Shadow of Man
(Goodall), 108–9

intimate partner violence (IPV), 248–49, 250

Iowa, 236

Iphigeneia, 163

Iran, 146

Iraq, 147, 258, 274

Ireland, 170, 171

ISIS (ISIL), 257–58, 271

Islam, 153, 166, 171, 252

Isle of Rumm, 83

Israel, 147, 150, 237, 264

ITT, 233

Iversen, Torben, 279–80

Jabesh-gilead, 165

jacanas (Jesus birds), 73–74, 75–76, 78, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 301

Jacob, 164

Japan, 166, 248

Jefferson, Thomas, 176

Jelenec, Petra, 263

Jesus, 181

Jesus birds (
see
jacanas)

Jews, 165, 179, 181, 187, 195, 264, 270 “Jimmy’s Baby Doll and Jenny’s Truck” (Conry-Murray & Turiel), 202

Joliot-Curie, Irène, 208

Jolly, Alison, 96, 108

Judges, Book of, 164–65, 170

Judson, Olivia, 59, 73

Justice Department, U.S., 250

Kamehameha I, King, 168

Kantor, Jodi, 276–77

Kassebaum, Nancy, 282

Keeley, Lawrence, 162

Kenya, 246, 254

Khmer Rouge, 271

Kibale National Park, 93, 109

“Kinder, Küche, Kirche,” 207

Kinder, Molly, 241

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 235

Kinsey Institute, 221

Kipsigis (people), 169

Kissinger, Henry, 216–17

Klinefelter syndrome, 26–27

Klobuchar, Amy, 282

Knott, Cheryl, 107

Kokko, Hanna, 131

Komodo dragon, 46–47

Korea, 166, 179

Kramer, Karen, 132

Krishna, Lord, 166

Kruger, Ann, 259, 260

Krüger, Oliver, 87

Kuhn, Steven, 142, 143

!Kung (people), 132–41, 142, 152, 161, 222

gender equality among, 138, 141

initiation rites of, 137–38

trance dancing among, 135–37, 141

Kurdistan, 252

Kwakiutl (people), 148–49

labor, division of, 142–43, 157–58, 159

labor force, women in, 192–93, 275–76

labor slavery, 178–79

lactation, 86–87, 184, 207, 213

Ladli program (Delhi), 240

Lagarde, Christine, 268

Lambert, Patricia, 145, 150

Lamphere, Louise, 141

Lancaster, Jane, 132

langurs, 99, 104, 109

lap dancers, 125

Lascaux, 88

last common ancestor (LCA), 121, 129

leadership, 173, 211, 230, 233, 235–36, 246, 259, 266, 275–76, 281, 292, 297

development of, 286–87

in private sector, 284–93

Le Boeuf, Burney, 84

Lee, Richard, 129, 134, 139

Leibinger-Kammüller, Nicola, 288

Lemlich, Clara, 194–95

lemurs, 85, 95–97, 102, 113

see also specific lemurs

lemur syndrome
, 96, 113, 301, 303

lesbians, 28, 33, 36–37, 205, 225, 227, 278–79, 293, 298

Lesotho, 304–5

LeVay, Simon, 228–29

Leviathan
(Hobbes), 175–76, 178, 180

Levi-Montalcini, Rita, 208

Levine, Ruth, 241

Liberia, 271

life expectancy (longevity), 38, 131, 151, 210

Ligtenberg, Lisette, 34

Lim, Miranda, 93

limbic system, 93, 116

Lindenfors, Patrik, 87

lions, 70, 88–89

literacy, female, 242

literature, 155

Lockheed Martin, 232, 233

London, 176, 178

London School of Tropical Hygiene, 248–49

longevity (
see
life expectancy)

“Looking for Sexual Selection in the Female Brain” (Cummings), 90–91

Lord of the Flies
(Golding), 213–14

lordosis, 81–82

Lot, 164

Louisiana, 261, 270

love darts, 60

Loves of the Plants, The
(Erasmus Darwin), 49–50

Low, Bobbi, 168–69, 172

“Lucy” (
Australopithecus afarensis
), 123

Lukas, Dieter, 183–84

Luo (people), 203

Luther, Martin, 167

Lychnis
, 49–50

Lysistrata, 192

Maccoby, Eleanor, 202, 204

Mace, Ruth, 131

Machiavelli, 199

machihembra
(man-woman), 35–36

MacKinnon, Katherine, 108

Madagascar, 95, 245

“Madam President” town hall, 236

Mahabharata, 165–66

Mahale Mountains, 109

Major League Baseball, 40

Malala, 257

Malays (people), 152–53

Malaysia, 152, 251

male circumcision, 246, 247, 251

male dominance, 6, 11, 12, 79, 90, 94, 103, 105, 110–11, 115, 118, 122, 130, 135, 140–43, 145–46, 149, 152, 169, 174–76, 195, 203, 215, 225, 237, 276, 281, 293, 296–97, 301, 303

see also
social stratification

maleness, 8–9, 25–27, 37, 45–46, 121

as syndrome, 26

males, 53–54, 57, 61, 64, 65–66

origins of, 45

male sexual force, in primates, 105–6

“male warrior hypothesis,” 215

malnutrition, 150

mammals, 25–26, 43, 63, 67, 76, 84–85, 100–101, 105, 124, 168, 183–85, 213

as basically female, 26–27

female-larger, 85–88

see also specific mammals

“Mammals in Which Females Are Larger Than Males” (Ralls), 85

Manchin, Joe, III, 282

mandrills, 79

manes, 88–89

Man the Hunter
(Lee and DeVore), 129

Manu-smriti, 166

Maori (people), 168

marital rape, 250

Marlowe, Frank, 130, 131

marmosets, 100–102, 301

Marolf, Brigitte, 96

Marquesas Islands, 126–27

marriage, 125–27, 134, 139–40, 142, 148, 152–54, 166, 169, 174, 180, 183, 185–87, 232, 252–53, 257, 278–79

and labor force participation, 192–93, 194

see also
pair-bonding, monogamy, polyandry, etc.

Marshall, Lorna, 138

Martin, Carol, 201

Martu (people), 142

Marx, Karl, 155

Massachusetts, 261

mass killings, 295

masturbation, 41, 223–24

mating, 54, 56, 58, 60–61, 67, 74, 78–80, 82–83, 86, 88–89, 91, 92–94, 96, 98, 100, 107, 110–11, 114–15, 123–24

human, 8, 10, 131, 166, 169, 182, 226

maternal behavior, 92, 201

maternal deaths, 241–43

“Mathematics and Sciences Course Taking Among Arab Students in Israel” (Ayalon), 264

matrilineal societies, 11, 152–54, 168

Matsa, David, 287–88

Mayans (people), 156

Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 208

mayors, 283–84

MBA programs, 234

Mbuti (people), 161

McCain, John, 282

McCarthy, Margaret, 228

McCaskill, Claire, 235, 283, 286

McClintock, Barbara, 208

McDonald, Melissa, 215

Mead, Margaret, 151, 200, 205

meadow voles, 93

mean girls, 8, 188

media, 202–3, 224, 232, 241, 244, 250, 269, 278, 287

meiosis, 58

Meir, Golda, 7, 211, 237

Melching, Molly, 252–53

men:

biological advantages of, 207

emotions of, 6–7

as overrepresented in positions of power, 7

power politics of, 159

see also
males, maleness

Men Explain Things to Me
(Solnit), 295–96

menopause, 130–31

menstrual blood, 138, 152

menstrual cycle, 124–25, 215, 229–30

menstruation, 124, 138

merchant class, 155

Merkel, Angela, 236

Mesopotamia, 157, 168

Meyers, Joel, 259, 260

Michiels, Nicolaas, 61

microfinance loans, 249, 255

“Microfinance-Plus” program, 255

Microphallus
, 59

micropredators, 53

Mikulski, Barbara, 235, 282, 283

military-industrial complex, 233

milk, 67, 87, 101, 143, 194

Mill, John Stuart, 190

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 237–38

Miller, Amalia, 287–88

Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health
(Levine and Kinder), 241

mill towns, 194

Milosevic, Slobodan, 271

Minangkabau (people), 152, 153–54

Mink, Patsy, 274

Missoula, Mont., 250

MIT, 264–65

Mitani, John, 109

mitochondria, 297

mitosis, 58

Mladic, Ratko, 271

Moll Flanders
(Defoe), 178

monkeys, 65, 85, 87, 95, 121–22, 201, 203, 274, 301

pre-birth testosterone exposure and, 29

see also specific monkeys

monogamy, 15, 123, 126, 128, 131, 166–71, 180–87, 303

Greek, 181

growth of, 180–82, 183–84

in primates, 122, 184–85

serial, 126, 210

see also
pair-bonding

Montagu, Ashley, 15, 206–7, 208–9, 211, 216

montane voles, 92–93

Montgomerie, Robert, 77–78

Moore, Kristin, 175

Moore, Laoise, 172

morality (morals), 163, 165, 228, 232, 235, 272, 279, 305

Morgan, Julia, 191

Mormonism, 126, 166

“Morning After the Night Before, The” (Campbell), 219–20

Moses, 164

mosquito fish, 91, 92

Mosuo (people), 151–52, 154, 183

motherhood, 29, 138

mothering, 87, 92, 108, 213

mothers, unmarried, 65, 299, 302

Mothers and Others
(Hrdy), 132

Mount Assirik, 109

Mozambique, 245

Muhammad, 166

Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff, 169

Muller, Martin, 105

Mumbai, 247, 248

Mummert, Amanda, 149

Murdock, George Peter, 158

Murkowski, Lisa, 281–82

Mursi (people), 170

Muslims, 166, 170, 241–42, 252

mutations, 34, 48, 53, 123, 210, 297

Na (people),
see
Mosuo (people)

National Geographic
, 73

National Human Trafficking Hotline, 261

National Institute of Mental Health, 209

nationalism, 162

National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, 222

National Woman Suffrage Association, 190

National Woman Suffrage Convention (1869), 4

National Women’s Law Center, 275

Native Americans, 145–46, 149

Natufians (people), 150–51

natural selection, 69, 71–72, 297

Natural Superiority of Women, The
(Montagu), 15, 206–7

Navarrete, Carlos, 215

Navy SEAL, 274

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