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Lucy's legacy : sex and intelligence in human evolution /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jolly, Alison
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Human evolution.
Social evolution.
Women > Evolution.
Intellect.
Table of Contents:
  • The evolution of purpose
  • Life, sex, and cooperation
  • Sex: why bother?
  • Courtship and choice
  • Calculating love
  • Women in the wild
  • Lemurs, monkeys, apes
  • Human apes
  • Apish intelligence
  • Organic wholes
  • A gendered body
  • Instinct, learning, and fate
  • Thinking
  • Speaking adaptively
  • Are babies human?
  • Feet first, brains later
  • Demanding control
  • The global organism.