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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