Read Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy Online
Authors: Melvin Konner
Tags: #Science, #Life Sciences, #Evolution, #Social Science, #Women's Studies
Harvard Business School, 253–54, 276–77
Harvard University, 265
Haselton, Martie, 124–25
Hassan, Maggie, 235
Hatfield, Elaine, 223–24
Hawaii, 168, 235
Hawkes, Kristen, 131, 143
hawks, 87
heads of state, 234, 236–37, 283
“Health Versus Fitness” (Lambert), 150
Heitkamp, Heidi, 282–83
Helen, 98, 162–63, 196
hemorrhage, 243
Henry, Amanda, 143
Henry, Amy, 107
herding, 175
herding and gardening, polygyny in, 168, 169
“heritability,” 38–39
hermaphrodites, 24, 59–61
Heuer, Berys, 168
Hewlett-Packard, 232
Hindus, 165–66, 168, 241
Hines, Melissa, 37, 228
hippocampus, 228
Hirono, Mazie, 235
HIV/AIDS epidemic, 243–46, 255–56
Hobbes, Thomas, 175–76
Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot, 208
Hohmann, Gottfried, 114–15
Holekamp, Kay, 88
Hollywood Madam, 227
homicides, 42–43, 139, 160–61
“honor” killings, 248
hookup culture, 218–22, 277
hookups, 222, 227, 275
Hopkins, William, 93
Horace Mann School, 270
hormones, 3, 26–34, 38, 42, 45, 60, 62–64, 66–67, 77, 80–81, 89, 97, 107, 115, 125–26, 200, 212–13, 215, 228–29
horns, 83
Hour of Code, An, 265
House Ethics Committee, 270
House of Representatives, U.S., 232, 235
Howar, Barbara, 217
Howell, Nancy, 132, 138
Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 98–99, 100, 103, 105, 108, 127, 132
Huchard, Elise, 97
human genome, 112, 117
human mating,
see
mating, human
Human Relations Area Files, 203
humans, 119–20
courtship among, 80–81
environments of, 120
as pair-bonding, 75, 79
human sacrifices, 156
human twinning, 100–101
hunter-gatherers, 119–20, 124, 128, 129, 130–31, 132–34, 141–42, 148, 149, 150, 151, 158, 159, 160, 174, 180, 183, 304
diets of, 141–42
division of labor in, 142–43
gender equality in, 130
homicides in, 161
involved fathers in, 143
lives of women in, 142
polyandry in, 127
polygyny in, 167–68, 169
social structure of, 125
violence in, 145
hunting, 87, 88, 110, 129, 131, 135, 136, 142, 158, 160, 174, 175, 212
by women, 153
Hyde, Janet Shibley, 224
hyenas, 88–90, 97
hypothalamus, 29, 34, 63, 81, 213, 229
I Am Powerful campaign, 253–54
IBM, 232
“Iceman,” 161
identical twins, 38–39, 40
“I Have a Dream” speech (King), 235
Iliad
, 162–63, 169
Illinois, 270
Ilongot (people), 160
immunity, 53
Imperato-McGinley, Julianne, 35
Inca (people), 147, 168
India, 166, 183, 236, 239, 240, 242, 248, 250, 251, 253, 254, 255, 258, 299
rapes in, 247–48, 249
Indonesia, 152, 251
Industrial Revolution, 192
infanticide, 99, 106, 107, 184
among chimps, 109
infant mortality, 131, 238
infidelity, 24, 180
initiation rites, 137
Insel, Thomas, 92, 209
intellectual development disorder, 209
interbirth intervals, 150
internal gestation, 86–87
International Criminal Court, 271
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 271
International Game Technology, 233
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, 194–95
International Monetary Fund, 268
International Office of Public Hygiene, 21–22
International Princess Project, 258
In the Shadow of Man
(Goodall), 108–9
intimate partner violence (IPV), 248–49, 250
Iowa, 236
Iphigeneia, 163
Iran, 146
Iraq, 147, 258, 274
Ireland, 170, 171
ISIS (ISIL), 257–58, 271
Islam, 153, 166, 171, 252
Isle of Rumm, 83
Israel, 147, 150, 237, 264
ITT, 233
Iversen, Torben, 279–80
Jabesh-gilead, 165
jacanas (Jesus birds), 73–74, 75–76, 78, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 301
Jacob, 164
Japan, 166, 248
Jefferson, Thomas, 176
Jelenec, Petra, 263
Jesus, 181
Jesus birds (
see
jacanas)
Jews, 165, 179, 181, 187, 195, 264, 270 “Jimmy’s Baby Doll and Jenny’s Truck” (Conry-Murray & Turiel), 202
Joliot-Curie, Irène, 208
Jolly, Alison, 96, 108
Judges, Book of, 164–65, 170
Judson, Olivia, 59, 73
Justice Department, U.S., 250
Kamehameha I, King, 168
Kantor, Jodi, 276–77
Kassebaum, Nancy, 282
Keeley, Lawrence, 162
Kenya, 246, 254
Khmer Rouge, 271
Kibale National Park, 93, 109
“Kinder, Küche, Kirche,” 207
Kinder, Molly, 241
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 235
Kinsey Institute, 221
Kipsigis (people), 169
Kissinger, Henry, 216–17
Klinefelter syndrome, 26–27
Klobuchar, Amy, 282
Knott, Cheryl, 107
Kokko, Hanna, 131
Komodo dragon, 46–47
Korea, 166, 179
Kramer, Karen, 132
Krishna, Lord, 166
Kruger, Ann, 259, 260
Krüger, Oliver, 87
Kuhn, Steven, 142, 143
!Kung (people), 132–41, 142, 152, 161, 222
gender equality among, 138, 141
initiation rites of, 137–38
trance dancing among, 135–37, 141
Kurdistan, 252
Kwakiutl (people), 148–49
labor, division of, 142–43, 157–58, 159
labor force, women in, 192–93, 275–76
labor slavery, 178–79
lactation, 86–87, 184, 207, 213
Ladli program (Delhi), 240
Lagarde, Christine, 268
Lambert, Patricia, 145, 150
Lamphere, Louise, 141
Lancaster, Jane, 132
langurs, 99, 104, 109
lap dancers, 125
Lascaux, 88
last common ancestor (LCA), 121, 129
leadership, 173, 211, 230, 233, 235–36, 246, 259, 266, 275–76, 281, 292, 297
development of, 286–87
in private sector, 284–93
Le Boeuf, Burney, 84
Lee, Richard, 129, 134, 139
Leibinger-Kammüller, Nicola, 288
Lemlich, Clara, 194–95
lemurs, 85, 95–97, 102, 113
see also specific lemurs
lemur syndrome
, 96, 113, 301, 303
lesbians, 28, 33, 36–37, 205, 225, 227, 278–79, 293, 298
Lesotho, 304–5
LeVay, Simon, 228–29
Leviathan
(Hobbes), 175–76, 178, 180
Levi-Montalcini, Rita, 208
Levine, Ruth, 241
Liberia, 271
life expectancy (longevity), 38, 131, 151, 210
Ligtenberg, Lisette, 34
Lim, Miranda, 93
limbic system, 93, 116
Lindenfors, Patrik, 87
lions, 70, 88–89
literacy, female, 242
literature, 155
Lockheed Martin, 232, 233
London, 176, 178
London School of Tropical Hygiene, 248–49
longevity (
see
life expectancy)
“Looking for Sexual Selection in the Female Brain” (Cummings), 90–91
Lord of the Flies
(Golding), 213–14
lordosis, 81–82
Lot, 164
Louisiana, 261, 270
love darts, 60
Loves of the Plants, The
(Erasmus Darwin), 49–50
Low, Bobbi, 168–69, 172
“Lucy” (
Australopithecus afarensis
), 123
Lukas, Dieter, 183–84
Luo (people), 203
Luther, Martin, 167
Lychnis
, 49–50
Lysistrata, 192
Maccoby, Eleanor, 202, 204
Mace, Ruth, 131
Machiavelli, 199
machihembra
(man-woman), 35–36
MacKinnon, Katherine, 108
Madagascar, 95, 245
“Madam President” town hall, 236
Mahabharata, 165–66
Mahale Mountains, 109
Major League Baseball, 40
Malala, 257
Malays (people), 152–53
Malaysia, 152, 251
male circumcision, 246, 247, 251
male dominance, 6, 11, 12, 79, 90, 94, 103, 105, 110–11, 115, 118, 122, 130, 135, 140–43, 145–46, 149, 152, 169, 174–76, 195, 203, 215, 225, 237, 276, 281, 293, 296–97, 301, 303
see also
social stratification
maleness, 8–9, 25–27, 37, 45–46, 121
as syndrome, 26
males, 53–54, 57, 61, 64, 65–66
origins of, 45
male sexual force, in primates, 105–6
“male warrior hypothesis,” 215
malnutrition, 150
mammals, 25–26, 43, 63, 67, 76, 84–85, 100–101, 105, 124, 168, 183–85, 213
as basically female, 26–27
female-larger, 85–88
see also specific mammals
“Mammals in Which Females Are Larger Than Males” (Ralls), 85
Manchin, Joe, III, 282
mandrills, 79
manes, 88–89
Man the Hunter
(Lee and DeVore), 129
Manu-smriti, 166
Maori (people), 168
marital rape, 250
Marlowe, Frank, 130, 131
marmosets, 100–102, 301
Marolf, Brigitte, 96
Marquesas Islands, 126–27
marriage, 125–27, 134, 139–40, 142, 148, 152–54, 166, 169, 174, 180, 183, 185–87, 232, 252–53, 257, 278–79
and labor force participation, 192–93, 194
see also
pair-bonding, monogamy, polyandry, etc.
Marshall, Lorna, 138
Martin, Carol, 201
Martu (people), 142
Marx, Karl, 155
Massachusetts, 261
mass killings, 295
masturbation, 41, 223–24
mating, 54, 56, 58, 60–61, 67, 74, 78–80, 82–83, 86, 88–89, 91, 92–94, 96, 98, 100, 107, 110–11, 114–15, 123–24
human, 8, 10, 131, 166, 169, 182, 226
maternal behavior, 92, 201
maternal deaths, 241–43
“Mathematics and Sciences Course Taking Among Arab Students in Israel” (Ayalon), 264
matrilineal societies, 11, 152–54, 168
Matsa, David, 287–88
Mayans (people), 156
Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 208
mayors, 283–84
MBA programs, 234
Mbuti (people), 161
McCain, John, 282
McCarthy, Margaret, 228
McCaskill, Claire, 235, 283, 286
McClintock, Barbara, 208
McDonald, Melissa, 215
Mead, Margaret, 151, 200, 205
meadow voles, 93
mean girls, 8, 188
media, 202–3, 224, 232, 241, 244, 250, 269, 278, 287
meiosis, 58
Meir, Golda, 7, 211, 237
Melching, Molly, 252–53
men:
biological advantages of, 207
emotions of, 6–7
as overrepresented in positions of power, 7
power politics of, 159
see also
males, maleness
Men Explain Things to Me
(Solnit), 295–96
menopause, 130–31
menstrual blood, 138, 152
menstrual cycle, 124–25, 215, 229–30
menstruation, 124, 138
merchant class, 155
Merkel, Angela, 236
Mesopotamia, 157, 168
Meyers, Joel, 259, 260
Michiels, Nicolaas, 61
microfinance loans, 249, 255
“Microfinance-Plus” program, 255
Microphallus
, 59
micropredators, 53
Mikulski, Barbara, 235, 282, 283
military-industrial complex, 233
milk, 67, 87, 101, 143, 194
Mill, John Stuart, 190
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 237–38
Miller, Amalia, 287–88
Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health
(Levine and Kinder), 241
mill towns, 194
Milosevic, Slobodan, 271
Minangkabau (people), 152, 153–54
Mink, Patsy, 274
Missoula, Mont., 250
MIT, 264–65
Mitani, John, 109
mitochondria, 297
mitosis, 58
Mladic, Ratko, 271
Moll Flanders
(Defoe), 178
monkeys, 65, 85, 87, 95, 121–22, 201, 203, 274, 301
pre-birth testosterone exposure and, 29
see also specific monkeys
monogamy, 15, 123, 126, 128, 131, 166–71, 180–87, 303
Greek, 181
growth of, 180–82, 183–84
in primates, 122, 184–85
serial, 126, 210
see also
pair-bonding
Montagu, Ashley, 15, 206–7, 208–9, 211, 216
montane voles, 92–93
Montgomerie, Robert, 77–78
Moore, Kristin, 175
Moore, Laoise, 172
morality (morals), 163, 165, 228, 232, 235, 272, 279, 305
Morgan, Julia, 191
Mormonism, 126, 166
“Morning After the Night Before, The” (Campbell), 219–20
Moses, 164
mosquito fish, 91, 92
Mosuo (people), 151–52, 154, 183
motherhood, 29, 138
mothering, 87, 92, 108, 213
mothers, unmarried, 65, 299, 302
Mothers and Others
(Hrdy), 132
Mount Assirik, 109
Mozambique, 245
Muhammad, 166
Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff, 169
Muller, Martin, 105
Mumbai, 247, 248
Mummert, Amanda, 149
Murdock, George Peter, 158
Murkowski, Lisa, 281–82
Mursi (people), 170
Muslims, 166, 170, 241–42, 252
mutations, 34, 48, 53, 123, 210, 297
Na (people),
see
Mosuo (people)
National Geographic
, 73
National Human Trafficking Hotline, 261
National Institute of Mental Health, 209
nationalism, 162
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, 222
National Woman Suffrage Association, 190
National Woman Suffrage Convention (1869), 4
National Women’s Law Center, 275
Native Americans, 145–46, 149
Natufians (people), 150–51
natural selection, 69, 71–72, 297
Natural Superiority of Women, The
(Montagu), 15, 206–7
Navarrete, Carlos, 215
Navy SEAL, 274