Table of Contents

I: Some Statements of Theory; 1: Two Decades of a New Paradigm; 2: Three Styles in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behavior; II: Mating; 3: Polygyny, Family Structure, and Child Mortality; 4: Paternal Investment and Hunter-Gatherer Divorce Rates; 5: Fertility, Offspring Quality, and Wealth in Datoga Pastoralists; 6: Manipulating Kinship Rules; 7: Physical Attractiveness, Race, and Somatic Prejudice in Bahia, Brazil; III: Parenting; 8: Parental Investment Strategies among Aka Foragers, Ngandu Farmers, and Euro-American Urban-Industrialists; 9: Parenting Other Men’s Children; 10: Female-biased Parental Investment and Growth Performance among the Mukogodo; 11: Why Do the Yomut Raise More Sons than Daughters?; 12: The Grandmother Hypothesis and Human Evolution; IV: The Demographic Transition; 13: An Adaptive Model of Human Reproductive Rate Where Wealth Is Inherited; 14: The Evolutionary Economics and Psychology of the Demographic Transition to Low Fertility; 15: Sex, Wealth, and Fertility; 16: To Marry Again or Not; V: Sociality; 17: Effects of Illness and Injury on Foraging among the Yora and Shiwiar; 18: Reciprocal Altruism in Yanomamö Food Exchange; 19: Reciprocal Altruism and Warfare; 20: The Emergence and Stability of Cooperative Fishing on Ifaluk Atoll; VI: Conclusion; 21: Twenty Years of Evolutionary Biology and Human Social behavior

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Napoleon Chagnon