Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Fathers Then and Fathers Now 8
5. 2 Rethinking Man’s “Unfortunate Birthright” 27
6. 3 Opening the Floodgates 54
7. 4 Daddy Brains 63
8. 5 Darwin and the Broody Capon 82
9. 6 The Transformative Power of Babies 109
10. 7 Primate Precursors to Caring Males 132
11. 8 Pleistocene Emergence of an Unusual Ape 165
12. 9 Changing Men’s Minds 196
13. 10 The Cultural Construction of Fatherhood 221
14. 11 Shifting Opinions on the Way to the Present 259
15. 12 Twenty-First-Century Convergence of Men and Babies 288
16. Epilogue 312
17. Acknowledgments 317
18. Notes 321
19. References 359
20. Index 409