Human Nature

• 1. People are animals ; 2. Critique: Inward and outward: mind gets at behavior, behavior at mind ; 3. Classic: Cultural and biological success ; 4. Critique: Looking back two decades ; 5. Classic: Inuit foraging groups: some simple models incorporating conflicts of interest, relatedness, and central place sharing ; 6. Critique: Sex is not enough ; 7. Classic: Bushman birth spacing: a test for optimal interbirth intervals ; 8. Critique: Too good to be true? ; 9. Classic: Life histories, blood revenge, and warfare in a tribal population ; 10. Critique: Sticks and stones ; 11. Classic: Kipsigis women's preferences for wealthy men: evidence for female choice in mammals? ; 12. Critique: Marrying a married man ; 13. Classic: The evolution of premature reproductive senescence and menopause in human females: an evaluation of the 'grandmother hypothesis' ; 14. Critique: How much does gradnma help? ; 15. Critique: Forward and backward: alternative approaches to studying human social evolution ; 16. Classic: Child abuse and other risks of not living with both parents ; 17. Critique: Cinderella revisited ; 18. Classic: Sex differences in human mate preferences: evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures ; 19. Critique: Just another brick in the wall ; 20. Classic: Sex differences in sexual fantasy: an evolutionary psychological aporoach ; 21. Critique: Unobtrusive measures of human sexuality ; 22. Classic: Evolution, traits, and the stages of human courtship: qualifying the parental investment model ; 23. Critique: Where and when are women more selective than men? ; 24. Classic: Evolutionary analysis of psychological pain of rape victims ; 25. Rape-victim psychological pain revisited ; 26. Classic: Cognitive adaptations for social exchange Leda Cosmides and John Tooby ; 27. Critique: Think again ; 28. Critique: Tips, branches and nodes: seeking adaptation through comparative studies ; 29. Classic: Paternal confidence and dowry competition: a biocultural analysis of purdah ; 30. Critique: Cleo unveiled ; 31. Classic: Polygyny and the inheritance of wealth ; 32. Critique: If I had it to do over ; 33. Classic: Cross-cultural patterns in the training of children ; 34. Critique: Comparing snakes and snails and puppy-dog tails to sugar and spice: reflections on cross-cultural testing of hypotheses ; 35. Classic: Dowry as female competition ; 36. Critique: When are husbands worth fighting for? ; 37. Classic: Roman polygyny ; 38. Critique: Why a despot? ; 39. Classic: Fitness tradeoffs in the history and evolution of delegated mothering with special reference to wet-nursing, abandonment, and infanticide ; 40. Critique: Mainstreaming Medea

Laura Betzig has edited a timely and stimulating volume that should interest those concerned with human ecology, evolution and behaviour ... Betzig's text provides a thoughtful review and a rich discourse on the (adaptive) nature of human beings, a field destined to contribute to mainstream life science. Clara B. Jones, Endeavour Vol.22 (1) 1998