Our understanding of the evolution of human behavior has grown enormously over the past few decades, and an increasing number of behavioral and social scientists are making use of evolutionary theory in their work to shed light on issues ranging from marriage and parenting to the study of mental illness. The success of this research program is thre

Lee Cronk teaches anthropology at Texas A&M University. He is coeditor of the forthcoming book, Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective.

Preface, Righting Culture, Culture Wars, Mr. Tylor's Science, Words and Deeds, Baby Versus Bath water, Such Stuff as Chairs Are Made Of, Memes and Milk Bottles, Natural Kinds, The Gethenians, Imagining Diversity, Timeless Misconceptions, Ethnographic Hyperspace, Human Universals, The Great Attractor, Gethenian Nature Versus Human Nature, Family Resemblances, Behavioral Diversity Without Cultural Diversity, Human(izing) Nature, The Blob, A Frightening Prospect, What Is Science?, Types of Science, Waiting to Be Normal, Making Connections, Culture Emergent, Forming Texts, Connectionism, Reductionism, and Unity, First Contact, Pigeons and Goats, Evolution's Groupies, Mousehunt, People Who Make People, Alarming Nepotism, A Fractious Topic, The Utility of lt All, An Infectious Idea, Just Forget It, Teach Your Children Well, Off-Track, A Parallel Track, Sneaking Groups in the Back Door, Of Missionaries and Mud, Unstung, Back to the Beginning, Engineering Culture, Muddying the Waters, Communication and Culture, Why We're So Smart, Why We're So Moral, And Why We Talk So Much, Looking for a Suaboya in All the Wrong Places, All in the Family, Rashomon in the Bush, Gardening Tips, Tolerating the Intolerable, Absolutist Alternatives, Finding a Middle Ground, Sperm Banks and Shotgun Pellets, When Things Were Really Rotten, Lonesome No More?, Notes, References, Index