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dominance:

female, 71-72, 133-34 male, 75, 133, 218, 229 Dongba, 127 Donne, John, 213 dopamine, 168

double-blind methodology, 117

double standard, 26, 35 drapetomania, 118, 254 Drucker, Doris, 111 Druckerman, Pamela, 303 Dugum Dani, 184-85, 184, 331n Dunbar, Robin, 171 Dunbar’s number, 171 dysaethesia aethiopica, 118 East Anglia, University of, 328n Easton, Dossie, 310 Ebola, 207

Ecological Implications of Minilivestock (Paoletti), 21

economic game theory, 49, 52

economics, 166-72, 328n

Homo economicus and, 166-68

scarcity-based, 180

sexual, 48-51

tragedy of the commons and, 169-70 ecosystems, 160 Ecuador, 206

Edgerton, Robert, 124, 192-93, 207

egalitarianism, 93, 162, 163, 166, 176, 179, 182-83, 333n

fierce, 9, 11, 100-101

Egalitarians, The (Power), 187-89

eggs (ovum), 25, 53, 55, 220, 226, 235, 265, 266, 267

Egypt, 119-20

Einstein, Albert, 113

ejaculations, 12, 86, 220-21, 222, 227-29, 231, 235, 243

chemicals in, 228

copulation calls and, 258

health and, 238

seminal volume in, 236

Elders, Joycelyn, 287

Encounters at the End of the World, 135

Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, 339n

enemas, 286

Engels, Friedrich, 43

England, 157, 164, 181, 191

commons in, 169, 170

environment, 84, 101, 241-42

body and, 215

catastrophes and, 160, 191, 328n

genetics and, 36

toxins in, 237, 240, 340n

Ephron, Nora, 292

erections, 233, 286-87

Erikson, Philippe, 94, 108

Essay on the Principle of Population,

An (Malthus), 154-55, 169 estrogen-like compounds, 237 Ethical Slut, The (Easton and Liszt), 310

Europe, 142, 159, 207, 241, 289, 294, 327n, 332n foundling hospitals of, 111, 203 medieval, 252

Eve’s Seed (McElvaine), 111 evolution, 46, 58

Darwin’s views on, 27-33, 35-36 rapid change in, 226-27

evolutionary psychology (EP), 23, 36-39, 42, 48-53, 114, 122, 177, 214, 322n

human universal and, 115

paternity certainty and, 49

Evolution of Cooperation, The (Axelrod), 168

Evolution of Human Sexuality, The (Symons), 51, 57-58, 126, 295-96

exclusivity, sexual, 48-50, 97, 98, 122, 136 extinction, 160, 191, 293, 327n-28n extra-pair copulations (EPCs), 57, 96, 121, 125 Fagan, Brian, 319n, 328n

Fall, the, 35, 81-82

family, 2, 6, 41, 53, 75, 107, 109-12, 276, 293, 297, 300 Morgan’s views on, 43 Mosuo, 127, 128

nuclear, 4, 5, 34, 54, 66, 77, 106, 109-10, 115, 116, 117, 216, 219, 242, 246, 263, 306, 310

polyamorous, 305-6, 310

family values, 3

famine, 21-22, 154, 169-70

fascinum, 233

fathers, 108, 109, 112, 128

multiple, 92, 94, 320n

see also paternity; paternity certainty

fear, 147-48, 327n

Feinstein, David, 32

Female Choices (Small), 116

Ferguson, Brian, 193, 194, 334n