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Malinowski, Bronislaw, 110-11, 112, 115 Malleus Maleficarum, The, 252 malnutrition, 173, 174

Malthus, Thomas, 27, 32, 33, 154-60, 163, 326n, 327n

Hardin compared with, 169-70

mamuse (ritual relations), 121

Mangaia, 263, 284-85

Manson, Charles 194

Marand-anim, 124

March of the Penguins, 134-35 Margolis, Jonathan, 251-52 Margulis, Lynn, 227 Marind-anim, 89 marital-industrial complex, 4-5

marriage, 2-6, 40-41, 47, 53, 58, 75, 113-27, 129-30, 137, 290-300, 302-5, 326n

ceremonies for, 121, 138

as corporate merger, 85

Darwin’s views on, 31, 138

failure of, 2, 3, 4, 41, 112, 302-3, 308-9

group (the primal horde; omnigamy), 43-44, 72, 112

legal protection of, 109-10

monogamous, 2, 41, 112, 293-96, 298, 304, 309

open, 307-10

same-sex, 109

sexually dysfunctional, 23

swingers and, 307-8 unattractive depictions of, 2, 38, 41, 50

universality of, 54, 115-18

Martin, Robert, 339n

Martineau, Harriet, 326n

Marx, Karl, 43, 172

Masters, William, 294

masturbation, 242, 247-51, 285-88, 345n

mate guarding behavior, 59

mating, mate, 114, 116-17, 122-23, 141, 210

multimale-multifemale, 218, 263, 265

sharing of, 12, 121, 137, 141, 146

Mating in Captivity (Perel), 307

Matis, 94-95, 108

matriarchy, 71-72, 133-34

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 201

Mead, Margaret, 321n

Mean Genes (Burnham and Phelan), 23, 309

measles, 207, 207 Mehinaku, 103

Melanesia, Melanesians, 124, 294, 295 Melville, Herman, 31 meme, 166

Menand, Louis, 117, 211 menarche, 159

menstrual cycle, 57, 59, 72-73, 77, 240, 274-75, 320n, 342n

see also ovulation

Middle Ages, 121-22

midlife crisis, 292

Mill, John Stuart, 167

Miller, Alan S., 217

Miller, Arthur, 306

Miller, Geoffrey F., 215, 227, 234

Minangkabau, 132-33, 132, 324n

Mind of Its Own (Friedman), 233-34 misogyny, 344n

mixed strategies, 55-58, 60, 245 Mohave, 95

Mona Lisa (Leonardo), 271, 278, 279 Money, John, 286, 287

monkeys, 61, 62, 62, 63, 178, 198, 209, 219, 221 in Malaysia, xi-xiii

monogamy, 4, 11, 29, 75, 76, 97, 98, 102, 114, 141, 223, 231, 243, 245, 270

body-size dimorphism and, 216-17, 219, 242 development of, 25 difficulties with, 12

of gibbons, 62, 64, 66, 224, 246, 263, 268, 339n infertility and, 240

in marriage, 2, 41, 112, 293-96, 298, 304, 309 mating calls and, 256, 257 monotony and, 293-96 as natural, 5, 34, 41, 47, 134-37

serial, 299-300

sperm competition and, 228, 239 Montagnais Indians, 107, 174 Montaigne, Michel, 233 Moral Animal, The (Wright), 52-53, 270 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 42-45, 72, 110, 112 Mormon crickets (Anabrus simplex), 174-75 Morris, Desmond, 7, 93, 97, 108-9, 116 Most Dangerous Animal, The (Smith), 186 Mosuo, 126-32, 131, 134 mothers, 105-12, 128 single, 26, 49, 310 surrogate, 107

Mothers and Others (Hrdy), 106 Mozambique, 120, 202-3 Mr. Darwin’s Shooter (McDonald), 26 multimale-multifemale mating systems, 45, 66

murder, 127, 187, 194 Murderer Next Door, The (Buss), 23 Murdock, George, 117 Muria, 285

Murngin, 184-85, 184, 331n

mushroom, stinkhorn (Phallus ravenelii), 30

music, 86, 146-47, 315n, 320n

myth, 32, 33-34, 50, 167

Greek, 39-40, 228

Naked Ape, The (Morris), 97

Namowei, 195

Native Americans, 327n, 333n-34n

conical-head shaping of, 140, 140, 141, 325n

natural selection, 33, 35-36, 42, 51, 99, 155, 223, 238, 316n, 339n

“natural” vs. “unnatural,” 22-23, 117-18 Nature, 227, 241 Nayar, 122

NBC Nightly News,201 Neanderthals, 327n Nebraska, taping sex in, 283 necks, elongation of, 139,140-41 New Guinea, 91

New Orleans Medical & Surgical Journal,249, 286 Newsweek, 305 New Yorker,117, 204

New York Times,5, 161, 168, 201-2, 209, 273 Nigerians, 144

Nikah Misyar(traveler’s marriage), 119-20

Nikah Mut’ah(marriage for pleasure), 120

1984(Orwell), 147

nipples, male, 341n