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050 00 $aGN 281.4$bL68 2000
100 1 $aLow, Bobbi S.
245 10 $aWhy sex matters :$ba Darwinian look at human behavior /$cBobbi S. Low.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2000.
300 $axviii, 412 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [333]-389) and index.
505 0 $aVampire Stories and Beyond -- Explaining Behavior without Folklore -- Kinds of "Why" Questions -- Simple Rules, Complex Outcomes -- Humans as Critters -- Racing the Red Queen: Selfish Genes and Their Strategies -- Whose Genes Count, and Why? Kin Selection -- Summing Up the Basics: Assumptions and Objections -- Novel Evolutionary Environments: Can the Principles Still Hold? -- More than Ants or Peacocks: Lifetimes, Culture, Ecology and Variation -- The Ecology of Sex Differences -- Sex and Strategies -- The Ecology of Being Male and Female -- Mating Effort -- Parental Effort -- Variance in Reproductive Success: Mating versus Parental Strategists -- Sex, Status, and Reproduction Among the Apes -- The Ecology of Dominance and RS in Primates -- Ecological Aspects of Mating Systems -- Sex, Resources, and the Ecology of Human Reproduction -- The Ecology of Human Mating Systems -- The Ecology of Monogamy and Polyandry -- Sex, Resources, Appearance, and Mate Choice -- What Men and Women Want -- Beauty, Resources, and Mate Choice -- Signals of Desirability and Their Manipulation -- Who Can Choose? -- Sex, Resources, and Human Lifetimes -- Starting Out: Resource Striving in the Womb -- What's a Mother to Do? Optimizing Maternal Effort among Offspring -- Conflicts of Interest: Abortion, Infanticide, Abandonment Neglect -- Sex Differences in Reproductive Lifetimes -- Sex Differences in Senescence -- Sex and Resource Ecology in Traditional and Historical Cultures -- Sexual Divisions of Labor -- Sex and Control of Resources -- Men, Women, and Resources in Traditional and Historical Cultures -- Sex, Resources, and Fertility in Transition -- Nineteenth-Century Sweden -- Sex, Resources, and Life Histories -- Female Life Paths -- Male Life Paths -- Sex, Resources, and Fertility -- Fertility Transitions: What, If Anything, Do They Mean? -- Nice Guys Can Win -in Social Species, Anyway -- Are We Lemmings? A Cautionary Tale -- When and Why Do We Cooperate? -- Simple Strategies in Winning Games -- From Family to Dyads to Groups to Cultures -- The Group Selection Muddle -- Altruists or Good Neighbors? -- Cooperation and Free-Riders -- Conflicts, Culture, and Natural Selection -- Cooperation, Competition, and Groups -- Working Out Our Conflicts: Moral Systems and Group Life -- Intertwining Cultural and Natural Selection -- Logically Inept, Socially Adept: The Social Contexts of Intelligence -- Sex and Complex Coalitions -- Coalitions, Resources, and Reproduction -- Sex and Human Coalitions -- Politics and Reproductive Competition -- Men, Women, and Politics Cross-Culturally -- Women in Politics: When Did It Pay? -- Sex, Resources, and Early Warfare -- Resources and Conflict -- Why Women Warriors Are Rare -- War: Runaway Sexual Selection? -- Other Biological Approaches to Understanding War -- Intergroup Conflict in Other Species -- Conflict in Preindustrial Societies -- Societal Complexity and the Ecology of War -- Greek Hoplites: Early "Western" Warriors? -- The Ecology of Renaissance War -- The Behavioral Ecology of Modern War -- Disadvantaged Men in War -- War and Reproductive Success Today -- Proximate and Ultimate Causes of War: Evolutionary Novelty -- Wealth, Fertility, and the Environment in Future Tense -- Fertility, Consumption, and Sustainability: Weving the Strands -- Wealth, Fertility, and Consumption Today: Empirical Data -- Wealth, Women's Age-Specific Fertility, and Women's Life Paths Today -- An Evolutionary Perspective: Reducing Both Fertility and Consumption Is Novel -- What's Missing in Current Strategies -- Can New Strategies and Tactics Help -- An Evolutionary Bottom Line.
650 0 $aHuman evolution.
650 0 $aSex role.
650 0 $aNature and nurture.
650 0 $aSociobiology.
948 $a03/17/2000$b03/30/2000
999 $aGN 281.4 L68 2000$wLC$c1$i31786101222005$d2/23/2009$e11/20/2008 $f2/26/2004$g1$lCIRCSTACKS$mNULS$n3$rY$sY$tBOOK$u6/11/2003