Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I The Rebirth of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology

1 Foundations for a "New" Synthesis 23

2 Recent Studies on Human Sexuality 29

Part II The Birth of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology

3 The Animal Nature of Humans 43

4 Earlier Studies on Human Sexuality 65

5 Evolution, Ethics, and Culture 101

Part III The Death of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology

6 The Rise of Environmental Behaviorism 113

7 Evolutionary Psychology under Attack 129

8 The Death of Evolutionary Psychology 145

9 Lost in the Wilderness 167

Conclusion 173

List of Abbreviations 179

Notes 181

Bibliography 215

Index 233