Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. Preface IX
4. 1. A Puzzling Primate 1
5. 2. It’s Not Our Intelligence 8
6. 3. Lost European Explorers 22
7. 4. How to Make a Cultural Species 34
8. 5. What Are Big Brains For? Or, How Culture Stole Our Guts 54
9. 6. Why Some People Have Blue Eyes 83
10. 7. On the Origin of Faith 97
11. 8. Prestige, Dominance, and Menopause 117
12. 9. In- Laws, Incest Taboos, and Rituals 140
13. 10. Intergroup Competition Shapes Cultural Evolution 166
14. 11. Self- Domestication 185
15. 12. Our Collective Brains 211
16. 13. Communicative Tools with Rules 231
17. 14. Enculturated Brains and Honorable Hormones 260
18. 15. When We Crossed the Rubicon 280
19. 16. Why Us? 296
20. 17. A New Kind of Animal 314
21. Notes 333
22. References 373
23. Illustration Credits 429
24. Index 431