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Mean Genes: From sex to money to food - Taming our primal instincts

By Terry Burnham , Jay Phelan

Book information

Publisher
Perseus Publishing
Year
2000
ISBN
0-7382-0230-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7593121 bytes)
Pages
259\259
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2018-12-28 08:20:07

Description

Contents......Page 4 Introduction (1)......Page 6 Thin Wallets and Fat Bodies (13)......Page 17 Debt: Laughing all the way to the Darwinian bank (15)......Page 18 Fat: Please don't feed the humans (35)......Page 38 Constant Cravings (57)......Page 60 Drugs: Hijacking the pleasure pathway (59)......Page 61 Risk: Thrill-seeking genes take us for a ride (83)......Page 85 Greed: Running fast on the happiness treadmill (105)......Page 107 Romance and Reproduction (129)......Page 131 Gender: Girl against the boys (131)......Page 132 Beauty: It's more than skin deep (153)......Page 153 Infidelity: Our cheating hearts (173)......Page 173 Family, Friends, and Foes (197)......Page 196 Family: The ties that bind (199)......Page 197 Friends and Foes: Keep friends close and enemies closer (213)......Page 211 Conclusion: Surviving desire (243)......Page 241 Acknowledgments (255)......Page 251 Index (257)......Page 253

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