Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire–Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do

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by Miller, Alan S.

Heche, Anne

  Hepburn, Audrey

  Hezbollah

  hijab

  Hill, Emily A.

  Hines, Melissa

  Hirschi, Travis

  Hoffman, Dustin

  Hollywood divorce rate

  Home (TV show)

  Homicide (Daly and Wilson)

  homicides

  homosexuality

  “horny

  sister hypothesis,”

  Horse Whisperer, The (film)

  hostile environment sexual harassment

  Human Behavior and Evolution Society

  (HBES)

  human capital

  human evolution, slowness of

  human exceptionalism

  See also evolutionary psychology human universals

  Hume, David

  Hunt, Helen

  “Ice Age, the” (Pleistocene epoch)

  ideal mate

  industrial society, natural selection

  innate human nature

  intermarriage for reducing group conflict

  internal gestation

  In the Line of Fire (film)

  intrinsic value of gifts

  “invariant” age-crime curve Iranian women

  and body image

  Iraqi insurgents, killing more Iraqis than

  Americans

  Irish Republican Army (IRA)

  Jessel, David

  Johansson, Scarlett

  Jordan

  Judeo-Christianity and monogamy

  Kalyvas, Stathis N.

  Kanazawa, Satoshi

  “Keep America Beautiful,” PSAs

  Kennedy, John F.

  killing children

  one’s wife (uxoricide)

  kindergarten teachers (female)

  Kurzban, Robert O.

  Langlois, Judith H.

  language and culture

  last name (father’s), given to child

  lat

  er-borns

  lekking

  liberals and moralistic fallacy

  literary themes, similar in all cultures

  logic for evaluating science

  Low, Bobbi S.

  macro vs. micro issues

  Madonna

  Maher

  Making Sense of Suicide Missions (Gambetta)

  maladaptive adaptations

  Marlowe, Frank

  marriage

  ability to

  acquire resources

  courtship gifts

  cross-cultural ornamentation

  cuckoldry

  “dads” vs. “cads,”

  diamonds, a girl’s best friend

  divorce (likelihood of) and sons

  extra-pair sex partners

  extravagant gifts, worthless

  flowers as gifts

  fraternal polyandry

  genitals (male)

  and female promiscuity

  gold diggers

  handsome men, bad husbands

  intrinsic value of gifts

  nonfraternal polyandry

  nuptial gifts

  paternity certainty

  personal

  networks and

  polyandry

  polygamy

  productivity depression from

  promiscuity (female) and

  male’s genitals

  pubertal timing of girls

  remarriage after divorce

  “semen displacement device,”

  serial polygyny

  short-term casual sex

  Standard Social Science Model

  testes (size), female promiscuity

  willingness to invest in woman

  See also evolutionary psychology; monogamy; polygyny; sex and mating

  Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature, The (Miller)

  McCann, James C.

  McCartney, Paul

  McPherson, J. Miller

  Mead, Margaret, Samoa (hoax)

  Mealey, Linda

  meat carving, men’s responsibility

  men and

  women, differences

  animal protein consumption

  anisogamy

  children (possible)

  cultural

  determinism

  culture, influence of

  exception that proves the rule

  exotic cultures (hoaxes)

  first day of life, sex differences

  fitness ceiling

  fitness floor

  fitness variance

  gender socialization

  human nature and

  internal gestation

  language and culture

  Margaret Mead, Samoa (hoax)

  Native American Environmentalism

  (hoax)

  one human culture

  polygyny and

  reproductive success

  Standard Social Science Model

  Tasaday (hoax)

  worshiping of animate objects

  See also crime and violence; evolutionary psychology; family; marriage; men and women, differences;

  political and economic inequalities; religion and group conflict; sex and mating;

  Standard Social Science Model midlife crisis myth

  midriffs, teenage girls baring of

  Miller, Geoffrey F.

  miscommunication (he said, she said)

  modern men, fooling

  Moir, Anne

  “Mommy’s baby, Daddy’s maybe,”

  monkeys, sex differences shared

  monogamy

  Christian religious traditions and

  defined

  fitness variance and

  men benefiting from

  pubertal timing of girls

  resource inequality and

  Monroe, Marilyn

  Moore, Edward George

  Moral Animal: The New Science of Evolutionary

  Psychology, The (Wright)

  moralistic fallacy

  Moulay Ismail the Bloodthirsty (Emperor of Morocco)

  movies, sex and mating

  Muslim suicide bombers

  Native American Environmentalism (hoax)

  naturalistic fallacy

  natural selection, stability for

  neurosurgeons (male)

  Newman, Paul

  Nicholson, Jack

  nonfraternal polyandry

  norms against crime and violence

  nuptial gifts

  Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the

  Way They Do, The (Harris)

  obesity and maladaptive adaptations

  occupational segregation by sex

  older man and younger woman

  one human culture

  ornamentation, social and cultural

  “ought,” no place in science

  Palestinian suicide bombings

  parental investment in children

  parental socialization and children,

  parenthood competition, cost of

  productivity and

  See also family; marriage; sex and mating Pascal, Blaise

  “Pascal’s wager,”

  paternal

  resemblance

  paternity certainty

  pathogens, parasites resistance and attractive faces

  penis (shape), female

  promiscuity

  perceptions (he said, she said)

  Perry, Ted

  personal networks

  pheromones from

  unrelated men and pubertal timing of girls

  physical attractiveness and sex ratio at birth

  Pierce, Franklin

  Pinker, Steven

  Pleistocene epoch (“the Ice Age”)

  political and economic inequalities

  affairs by politicians

  (male)

  brain types and

  earnings, differences in

  empathizers (female brain)

  employer discrimination (“glass ceiling”)

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p; “extreme male brain,” autism

  feminists and

  human capital

  macro vs. micro

  issues

  neurosurgeons (male), kindergarten teachers (female)

  “reasonable person,” US courts

  reproductive success and

  risk-aversiveness of women

  sacrifices of success

  sex discrimination

  sexual harassment

  short-term casual

  sex

  Standard Social Science Model and

  systemizers (male brain)

  temperaments

  “token resistance,”

  See also evolutionary psychology; sex and mating polyandry

  polygamy

  polygyny

  crime and violence

  decision, monogamy or polygyny

  defined

  divorce and

  fitness variance

  nature of humans

  pubertal timing of

  girls

  resource inequality and

  sexual dimorphism and

  polygyny (continued ) simultaneous or serial

  sororal polygyny

  suicide bombing and

  wealthy, powerful men and

  Westerners and

  women benefiting from

  pornography and men

  post-industrial society and

  natural selection

  Poumele, Fofoa

  productivity and marriage

  promiscuity (female) and male’s

  genitals

  property crimes

  prostitution and men

  psychological adaptations (evolved psychological

  mechanisms)

  pubertal timing of girls

  pupil dilation, attraction

  quid pro quo sexual harassment

  racism innate, race is not

  rape

  rational choice theory

  “reasonable person,” US

  courts

  Redford, Robert

  red hair, aversion to

  relationships, women vs. men

  religion and group conflict

  adaptation, religion as

  “animistic bias” (“the agency-detector mechanism”)

  byproduct of adaptations

  cognitive biases and

  cross-cultural agreement

  cultural universal, religion as

  Error Management Theory

  ethnic and nationalist conflict

  ethnocentrism

  intermarriage for reducing

  lekking

  marriage as cross-cultural

  ornamentation

  Muslim suicide bombers

  origins of religious beliefs

  ornamentation, social and

  cultural

  “Pascal’s wager,”

  polygyny, suicide bombing

  racism innate, race is not

  rational choice theory

  religiosity

  risk management and religiosity

  sex (absence of) and suicide

  bombing

  social and cultural ornamentation

  Standard Social Science Model and

  suicide bombers and Islam

  terrorist groups (traditional)

  traveling

  “War on Terror,”

  xenophobic attitudes

  See also evolutionary psychology; sex and mating remarriage after divorce

  remote control, channel surfing

  reproductive success crime and violence

  evolutionary psychology and

  men and women, differences

  political and economic inequalities

  reproductive value of blonde bombshells

  Reskin, Barbara F.

  resource inequality, monogamy or polygyny

  reverse naturalistic fallacy

  Rice, William R.

  Ridley, Matt

  risk-aversiveness of women

  risk management and religiosity

  Robertson, Ian

  Russo, Rene

  sacrifices for success

  Safeway

  Salinger, J. D.

  Samoa (hoax)

  Savanna Principle

  Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the

  Biology of Behavior, The (Hamer)

  scientists and marriage

  secondary sexual characteristics of attractive faces

  “semen displacement device,”

  serial polygyny

  17th Annual Conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society

  sex (absence of) and suicide bombing

  sex and mating

  advertisements, ideal female beauty

  age differences (large) between men and their mates

  beauty, not in the eye of beholder or skin-deep

  bilateral symmetry of faces

  blonde bombshells (Barbie)

  blue eyes

  breasts (large)

  children’s preference for attractive faces

  choice by female

  cooperation, calculations behind, and cognitive biases

  cross-cultural agreement of beauty

  divorce rate and

  dumb, blondes as

  dying hair blond

  Error Management Theory

  facial attractiveness

  facial averageness

  fantasies

  fertility of blonde bombshells

  hair and ideal female beauty

  health, assessing

  ideal mate

  literary themes, similar in all cultures

  midriffs, teenage girls baring of

  miscommunication (he said, she said)

  modern men, fooling

  movie portrayal of

  older man and younger woman

  pathogens, parasites resistance and attractive faces

  pornography and men

  prostitution and men

  pupil dilation, attraction

  religion and cognitive biases

  reproductive value of blonde bombshells

  Savanna Principle

  secondary sexual characteristics of attractive faces

  sexual interest, overestimating

  sexual variety desired by men

  skin color and fertility

  Standard Social Science Model and

  “superior customer service policy,”

  teenage boys and older women

  waist (small)

  youth

  See also crime and violence; evolutionary psychology; marriage; political and economic inequalities; religion and group conflict

  sex discrimination

  sex ratio at birth

  sexual dimorphism and polygyny

  sexual harassment

  sexual jealousy, male

  Shaw, George Bernard

  short-term casual sex

  siblings, differences among

  Simpson, Jeffry A.

  Simpson, Jessica

  Sinatra, Frank

  Singh, Devendra

  Six Days Seven Nights (film)

  size of parents

  skin color and fertility

  Smith-Lovin, Lynn

  social control theorists

  socialization, human behavior as product

  social ornamentation

  Sociology (Robertson)

  soldiers, dying for their country

  sons and likelihood of divorce

  sororal polygyny

  Spears, Britney

  spousal abuse

  stability for natural selection

  Standard Social Science Model

  biology, humans exempt

  blank slate (tabula rasa), human nature as

  brain, exception to evolution

  environment, human behavior as product of

  evolution stops at the neck

  family

  gender socialization

  human exceptional
ism

  marriage

  media impact on sex and mating

  men and women, differences

  political and economic inequalities

 

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