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of bonobos, 64

in child care, 105-6

human, 65, 66, 68, 75, 77, 100, 102, 105-6, 139, 151, 160, 168, 177-78, 212

copulatory plugs, 234

Cortes, Hernan, 19, 34 cortisol, 208 cosmology, 3-4 crime, 283, 344n Crocker, Jean, 103, 120 Crocker, William, 103, 120, 146 Crystal, Billy, 256

cultural influence, 22, 23, 37-38, 83, 241-42, 274, 284

Curripaco, 119

Dagara, 105-6

D’Aluisio, Faith, 21

Daly, Martin, 49, 227

Danes, 237

Dangerfield, Rodney, 288

Darkness in El Dorado (Tierney), 195, 334n

Dark Side of Man, The (Ghiglieri), 23, 186-87

Darwin, Charles, 4, 23, 25-33, 42-44, 100, 136, 153-60, 219-22, 243, 316n, 337n autobiography of, 30, 154 on equality, 163

on female reticence, 27, 39, 40, 42, 51, 96, 229, 266 on harem-based system, 217 on jealousy, 138 kinship terms and, 108

Malthus’s influence on, 27, 154, 155, 164, 326n

on mother-child bond, 106-7

natural selection and, 33, 35-36, 42, 99, 155

respect for Morgan, 43, 44

sexual experience of, 31, 288

sexual selection and, 26, 39, 42, 221, 266

Darwin, Emma Wedgwood, 31, 221

Darwin, Erasmus (grandfather), 29, 30, 36, 316n-17n

Darwin, Erasmus (Charles’s brother), 316n, 326n

Darwin, Henrietta (Etty), 30

Davenport, William, 294

Dawkins, Richard, 68, 148, 153, 166, 177-78 de Bernieres, Louis (Corelli’sMandolin), 301 Deacon, Terrence W., 84 deceptiveness, 35, 38

Decreta and Cum in unum (papal decree), 3 Defoe, Daniel, 122

Demonic Males (Wrangham and Peterson), 23, 186, 187

demons, 252, 253

dental eruption, 205

Depardieu, Gerard, 20

depression, 267, 297-98

Descent of Man, The (C. Darwin), 25, 30, 155, 266 DeSteno, David A., 144-45 Destroying Angel, The (Money), 286 detribalization, 22, 165 Devil, 252, 341n

de Waal, Franz, 53, 69, 76-77, 178, 188, 319n, 333n

on bonobos, 69, 71, 72, 75, 96-97, 101, 339n

on pair bonds, 77, 115

on promiscuity, 225

Diamond, Jared, 9, 175, 222, 329n

Diamond, Lisa, 278

Dickson Mounds, 173-74

“Discourse on the Origin of Inequality” (Rousseau), 87

disease, 10, 174, 202, 203, 206-10, 207, 334n

heart, 162, 206, 209, 210, 238, 297-98

hysteria, 247-48, 250, 251

masturbation and, 250

slavery and, 118, 254

syphilis, 130, 206, 250

testosterone and, 297-98

tuberculosis, 178-79, 206, 207

“Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race” (Cartwright), 118

divorce, 4, 41-42, 97, 119, 120, 122, 299-300

Dixon, Dwight, 308 Dixon, Joan, 308

Dixson, Alan F., 45, 234, 257, 265, 266, 339n on female orgasm, 263, 342n on paraphilias, 280

DNA, 61-62, 70, 136-37, 158, 159-60, 264, 330n

environmental catastrophe and, 160, 191

in sperm cells, 237, 238

testicles and, 226-27, 243

dolphins, 320n