The Red Queen

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Chapter 6 ::: POLYGAMY AND THE NATURE OF MEN ::: 171 Chapter 7 ::: MONOGAMY AND THE NATURE OF WOMEN ::: 209

Chapter 8 ::: SEXING THE MIND ::: 245

Chapter 9 ::: THE USES OF BEAUTY ::: 277

Chapter to ::: THE INTELLECTUAL CHESS GAME ::: 307

Epilogue ::: THE SELF-DOMESTICATED APE ::: 345

Notes ::: 351

Bibliography ::: 369

Index ::: 395

. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book is crammed with original ideas—very few of them my own. Science writers become accustomed to the feeling that they are intellectual plagiarists, raiding the minds of those who are too busy to tell the world about their discoveries. There are scores of people who could have written each chapter of my book better than I. My consolation is that few could have written all the chapters.

My role has been to connect the patches of others ' research together into a quilt.

But I remain deeply indebted and grateful to all those whose minds I raided. I have interviewed more than sixty people in the course of researching this book and have never met with anything but courtesy, patience, and infectious curiosity about the world. Many became friends. I am especially grateful to those whom I interviewed repeatedly and at length until I had almost picked their minds clean: Laura Betzig, Napoleon Chagnon, Leda Cosmides, Helena Cronin, Bill Hamilton, Laurence Hurst, Bobbi Low, Andrew Pomiankowski, Don Symons, and John Tooby.

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