Standing on the shoulders of farsighted humans
Book dedication
Acknowledgements
List of Boxes Preface1 Introduction1.1 Standing on the shoulders of others: a book of thousand different voices1.2 Notes on interdisciplinarity2 Death and cosmic purpose of life2.1 Quests to find a cosmic purpose of life2.2 Beliefs, religion, and evolution2.3 Fear of death, purpose, human evolution, and discrimination 2.4 Teleology, morality, organized religions, and advantages of believing 2.5 Beliefs, atheism, and spirituality3 Our place in nature, progress, racism and eugenics3.1 'Progress', racism and quests to understand our place in nature 3.2 Cultural, or 'epigenetic', versus innate, or 'genetic', notions of race 3.3 Aristotle, Galen, monkeys, human anatomy, and Chain of Being 3.4 Apes and rise of innate notions of 'race' such as white supremacy 3.5 Apish-humans, Malthus and Darwin's 'struggle-for-life', Freud's psychoanalysis, and eugenics 3.6 Medical experimentation, 'progress', eugenics, and genocide 4 Myths and reality about 'savages' and 'civilization'
4.1 'Savages', 'civilization' and inequality 4.2 Agriculture, labor, slavery, leisure, health and 'progress' 4.3. Hobbes, Rousseau's 'Noble Savage', and violence
5 Sex, love, marriage, 'meant to be', and misogyny 5.1 Teleological stories, homosexuality, romantic love, sex, and marriage 5.2 Agriculture, religion, 'original sin', monogamy, and misogyny 5.3 Women, men, sexual desire and orgasms 5.4 Sex at dawn, Sex at dusk, scientific biases, 'traditional societies', and jealousy 5.5 History of marriage, love and sex, and links to health and happiness 5.6 Misogyny, history, teleology, religion, and Hypatia of Alexandria 5.7 Myths and facts concerning narratives on gender differences and roles
6 Darwin, capitalism, 'social Darwinism', colonialism, and beliefs
6.1 Darwin, Darwinism, idealization, adaptationism, and just-so-stories 6.2 Purpose, struggle-for-life, selfish genes, straw-men and suicide 6.3 'Progress', 'higher' or 'favored' groups, racism, misogyny, and capitalism 6.4 Teleological narratives, 'savages', colonialism, slavery, an