monogamy 128, 134, 136
Morgan, Lewis 24
Mormonism 170, 201
Mother Teresa 190
MUDs 216
Munch, Edvard 54
music 55–6, 61–3, 66
mystical experiences 194, 197
Neanderthals 69–70, 120, 195
near–death experience 179–82, 188
nepotism 138
neural networks 57, 64
Newton, Isaac 32
obligation 170, 172–4, 186
Old Hag 177, 182
orgasm 121, 129
ovulation 128–9
parasites 109, 139, 145
cultural instructions as 32
memes as 6, 110, 159, 161
parental
care 148
certainty 128
investment 125–9
paternity 145
Pavlov, Ivan 44
Penrose, Roger 220
phemotype 63
phenotype xii, 32, 59–66
extended viii, xii, 109–10
meme 62–6
Picasso, Pablo 131
Pinker, Steven 25, 70, 88, 94–5, 112, 196, 237,
placebo effect 186, 188
Plato xii
pleistocene 36
Plotkin, Henry 16, 29, 240
polyandry, fraternal 134, 136
polygyny 134
poodle 14
Popoff, Peter and Elizabeth 193
Popper, Sir Karl 28, 118,220
population 211
potlatch 159
prayer 187–8, 193
printing 209–10
prisoner’s dilemma 150–1
progress (in evolution) 13, 28, 59, 94,
prosocial behaviour 147
prostitution 126
Pyper, Hugh 192, 232
QWERTY 208
rational choice theory 158
Ray, Verne 112
reciprocation 172–4, 229;
see also
altruism, reciprocal
recycling 168, 169
Reiss, Diana 3–4
religious experiences 201
replicator
criteria for 14, 100–7
definition 5
power 5, 13, 35, 43, 236, 240
and vehicle 5, 65–6, 198
reverse engineering 51, 214
Richerson, Peter 35, 75, 108, 120, 198
Ridley, Mark 199
Ridley, Matt 128, 159
robots 2, 106–7, 218, 238
Rose, Nicholas 239
r–selection 100, 212
Rubens, Peter Paul 131
Rushdie, Salman 191
Samoa 114–15
scan, brain 39, 80, 89
scars 177, 183
science 6, 28–9, 65, 176, 244
and religion 202–3
and spirituality 244
selection, sexual 79–80, 81, 131
self 2–3, 194, 219–34, 242–6
awareness 73, 230
illusory 228
real 228
self–centered selectionism 239
selfish gene theory 5, 148
selfplex 231–4, 236, 238, 243, 245–6
Sequoyah 206–7
shaping 45
Shipman, Pat 95
Showalter, Elaine 176
sign language 87–8, 102
Singh, Devendra 127
Skinnner, B.F. 44–5, 117–18
sleep paralysis 175, 176–8, 180
Smith, Joseph 170
snails 109–10, 139
Societe de Linguistique de Paris 87, 105
sociobiology 32–3, 35, 121, 235
altruism and 147–52, 162
antagonism towards 33, 170
language and 83
limits of 108–20
religion and 196
sex and 122–9, 136, 144
socioecology 134
sociotype 64, 66
soup, primeval 5, 102, 205
pumpkin 61–3, 65, 213
Spencer, Herbert 24
spiritual experiences 194
spiritualism 67, 193, 222
spirituality 68, 184, 244
Standard Social Science Model (SSSM) 111–15
stimulus enhancement 48
Stokes, Doris 194
subjectivity 2, 238
succubus 177
suffering 230–1, 243
suicide 47, 51
Sumerians 206
symbiosis 109, 120,
symbiont
cultural instructions as 32
memes as 110, 159, 161
language as 98
symbolic threshold 97–8, 104
symbols 97–8, 105, 106–7
Szathmary, Eors 91
taboos 135, 137, 199
Taieb, Morris 69
talking 82–6
Talmud 191
Tarot cards 812–3
teaching 34
technology 27–8, 31, 64, 103, 204
alien 175, 178
copying 211
fear of 178
telephone 212, 215
temporal lobe 179, 197
theory of mind 229–30
Thorndike, Edward Lee 47
tit–for-tat 151, 156
Tooby, John 111, 115
toolmaking 97, 195
tools 72–3, 95
mind 118
stone 69, 76–8, 89–90, 130
Toth, Nicholas 89
Tower of Generate and Test 117–19
Toynbee, Arnold 24
transmission,
horizontal xiii, viii, 34, 132–8, 141, 191, 201
longitudinal viii, xiii
oblique 132–3
vertical 34, 143, 132–8, 190, 201
Trivers, Robert 125, 149, 151, 229
trustworthiness 150–1, 152
truth trick 180–1, 182, 193, 201, 189
Colin 26–7
tunes 6, 55–6, 169
twins 197
UFOs 175, 177, 180, 192
Universal Darwinism xvi, 5, 10–18, 24, 29
urban myth 14–15, 113
vampire bats 147, 150, 151
van Gogh, Vincent 54
vegetarianism 167
vehicle 65–6, 110, 198
definition 5, 65
meme 65, 215
gene 65
viral sentences 18
virginity 115, 169
virus 85, 178, 217
biological viii, ix, 19, 21–2
computer 20–2, 217
cultural instructions as 32
internet 20–1
of the mind 22, 110
waist–to-hip ratio 126
Walker, Alan 90, 95
Wallace, Alfred Russel 11,67
Warraq, Ibn 190
Watson, James, D. xii
web sites 216
weed theory 41, 84, 242
Weissman, August xi, xii, 59, 60
Wells, H.G. 130
Wernicke’s area 72
Williams, George C. 198
Wills, Christopher 74
Wilson, Edward O. 33, 108, 123, 144, 196
Wilson, Margo 128
Wittgenstein, Ludwig vii, x
World Wide Web viii, xiv, 215–18
Wright, David 105
writing 98,103, 205–11, 213–14
Yanomamo 199