Origins Stories

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. Culture Wars, Nature Wars: A Report from the Front 1
6. Origins Stories 33
7. Adam and Eve Do the Wild Thing: The Science of Desire, the Selfish Gene, and Other Modern Fables 69
8. Venus and Mars at the Fin de Siècle: Evolutionary Psychology and the Modern Art of Spin 115
9. Varieties of Human Nature: The View from Anthropology and History 167
10. Permutations on the “Nature” of Desire: The Gay Brain, the Gay Gene, and Other Tales of Identity 231
11. The Ends of Nature: The Weird Antinomies of Postmodern Mass Culture 283
12. An Open-Ended Conclusion 342
13. Notes 349
14. Index 421