Cover; Half-title; Endorsements; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Alien's Challenge; The Alien's Report; The Strangest Animal; Infested with Ideas; Meeting the Alien's Challenge; 2 Darwin Comes to Mind; Super Freaks; The Greatest Idea Anyone Ever Had; What Are People For?; Darwin's Sexy Idea; The Inclusive Fitness Revolution; The Gene's-Eye View; For the Good of the Group?; Evolving Minds; Leaving the Comfort Zone; The Mating Mind; Exiles from Eden; A Fish Out of Water; A Spandrel in the Works; 3 The SeXX/XY Animal

An Academic Culture WarThe Evolution of Sex Differences; Are People Peacocks or Penguins?; Keeping It Casual; Explaining the Casual Sex Gap; Looking Good; A Lust for Wealth and Status; Mind over Matter; A History of Violence; Mothers and Others; Enemies of the Truth; 4 The Dating, Mating, Baby-Making Animal; The Conveyer Belt of Human Life; Survival of the Prettiest; Kissing Cousins; Love and Its Discontents; The Green-Eyed Monster; And Baby Makes Three; Listening to Cinderella; Maximizing Returns on Parental Investment; Not So Fast!; What's Our Natural Mating System?; 5 The Altruistic Animal

The Trouble with AltruismThicker than Water; Family Man; The Evolution of Mutual Back Scratching; The Trading Animal; Altruism as a Peacock's Tail; The Groupish Animal; Is Altruism Just Disguised Self-Interest?; 6 The Cultural Animal; A Virus in the Letterbox; Selection beyond Biology; 1. Breton Boats; 2. Conditioned Behavior; 3. Language; 4. Teddy Bears; 5. Businesses; 6. Science; The Ratchet Effect; Adaptive Culture; Cultural Group Selection; The Selfish Meme; The Meme-ing of Life; The Human Mind as the Ecology of Memes; Memetic Adaptations and Meme Machines

Gene-Meme Coevolution I: Sculpting the BodyGene-Meme Coevolution II: Sculpting the Mind; Survival of the Weakest?; The Future is Unwritten; Appendix A: How to Win an Argument with a Blank Slater; Appendix B: How to Win an Argument with an Anti-Memeticist; Permissions; Notes; Chapter 1: The Alien's Challenge; Chapter 2: Darwin Comes to Mind; Chapter 3: The SeXX/ XY Animal; Chapter 4: The Dating, Mating, Baby- Making Animal; Chapter 5: The Altruistic Animal; Chapter 6: The Cultural Animal; Appendix A: How to Win an Argument with a Blank Slater

Appendix B: How to Win an Argument with an Anti- MemeticistReferences; Index