academic careers 215
addiction 145, 147–148, 150, 154–156, 171
adversarial legal systems 23
Afghanistan 98
African 80
age at first birth 203
ageing 3, 85, 91, 96, 100–102, 144, 192
agency 26, 39, 43, 45–52, 54–58, 75, 160
aggregate analysis 112
AIDS 154
American 13, 93, 103, 115, 134–135, 137, 140, 150–152, 178
Aristotle 187
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) 99
Aznavour, Charles 199
Bartlett, Frederick 207
Bateson, Melissa 69, 183, 188, 211, 236
Bayesian statistics 240
behavioural ecology 51, 78, 90, 194, 203, 209
behaviourism 191
Beheim, Brett 185
Berkeley, George 187
Berlin 29
big idea piece (BIP) 12–16, 20, 22–24, 242
‘biology’/’non-biology’ distinction 27, 30–32, 35, 40
Bourdieu, Pierre 133
Brando, Marlon 216
Brecht, Bertolt 96
Britain, British 32, 48, 89, 96, 98, 102, 104, 122–123, 134, 136, 138, 164, 203–204, 217
Buddhism 240
Bunyan, John 231
Byzantine 48
Caesar 224
cash transfer 154
Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (CT-OVC) (Kenya) 154–155
cash transfers 147–148, 150, 158, 161
Centre for Social Justice 145–150, 153, 155–158
Cherokee 150–153, 155, 157–158, 160
Chomsky, Noam 51
choral singing 182
Civil Rights Act 125
Connelly, Michael 215
Conservative party 127, 134, 145, 165
Corn Laws 139
Costello, Elizabeth Jane 150–151, 153
cross-cultural studies 141–142
cultural attraction 31, 40, 73
cultural evolution 45, 59–62, 68–70, 72, 74–75, 174, 208–209
Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges (Lewens) 59
cultural group selection 45
cultural inheritance 49, 54, 69, 71
cultural replication 244
culture 3–5, 25–28, 32, 34, 37, 43–45, 49–51, 54, 61, 68–70, 72–75, 81, 103, 141, 149, 158–160, 207, 209, 234
Darwin, Charles 14, 61, 66, 229
Darwinian 29, 31, 59–62, 71–72, 74, 78, 83, 215
Davis, David 127
Dawkins, Richard 14, 35, 59, 232, 235
death 96–99, 101–103, 108–109, 142–143, 236–237, 244–245
depression 10, 12, 29, 153, 171, 217, 220, 224
Descartes, René 28
Dickens, Charles 99–100, 103, 107
diminishing returns 116, 118–119, 121–122, 124, 126, 176
disadvantage, structural 106
disciplinary boundaries 40, 51, 184, 193, 199, 209
disgust 204
DNA 3, 44, 65, 73, 75, 100, 102–103, 237
Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grygorovych 92–93
Douglas, Mary 204
Durkheim, Émile 30
Dutch 27
ecological fallacy 114, 120, 124–125
Elster, Jon 8
Emperor Hui 139
England, English 22, 48–49, 70–71, 84, 99, 101, 104–105, 139, 194, 203, 241
European Union 145
Europe, European 80, 135, 174, 192, 194, 198, 206
evolutionary history 29
Evolutionary History (Russell) 29
evolutionary psychology 143–144, 207, 209
evolutionary theory 14, 59, 61, 66, 73, 75, 82, 85, 87, 89, 91
failure 10, 15, 20, 74, 123, 145, 172, 178, 184, 190, 199, 207, 217, 222, 242
Family Assistance Plan 179
fatigue 139
Fisher, Ronald 39
fitness 60, 63–67, 69, 71–74, 82, 203, 205
folk economics 167
foraging theory 225
Frankenhuis, Willem 87, 108, 211
Friedman, Milton 179
Fuegians 50
fundamental attribution error 140
Garthwaite, Kayleigh 123, 134, 136, 138
Gates, Bill 216
genetic evolution 14, 30, 59, 62, 64, 68–69, 71–72, 75
genetic inheritance 67, 72, 158–160
genetic replication 65
genetic systems 14, 30, 59, 62, 64, 68–69, 71, 75
Germany 29
Geronimus, Arline 105
Glasgow 58
Great Smoky Mountains study 150–151
Hacking, Ian 5
Haidt, Jonathan 241
Hamilton, William 39
Harwood, Ronald 217
Hawking, Stephen 216
Healy, Kieran 130
Helsinki 185
holiday hunger 137
Howard, Michael 178
human evolutionary behavioural science 209
hunger 129
hunger-obesity paradox 135
Icarus 24
illusion of validity 160
India 179
Individuality and Entanglement (Gintis) 43, 52, 54
Industrial Revolution 174
inequality 3, 32, 100, 111–127, 144, 158, 164, 171–172, 179
inflammation 102
information 10, 18, 25, 68, 78, 81, 84, 98, 107–109, 120, 137, 160, 170, 191, 194, 196, 198, 200–201, 205, 208, 222, 227
inquisitorial legal systems 23
intention 33
inter-disciplinarity 4, 180, 184, 186, 189, 195, 197, 199
Israeli 160
Kafka, Franz 239
Kahneman, Daniel 160
Konner, Melvin 92
Lenoir, Timothy 182, 188, 192–193
life history theory 83, 88, 211
Marie Antoinette 138
Marxism 31
mathematical modelling 90
Mathot, Kimberley 87
Mayr, Ernst 124
meaning 26, 48, 66–67, 97, 104, 109, 190
mechanistic explanations 91
Melville, Herman 129
Mendelssohn, Felix 34
Mercier, Hugo 16–17, 19–21, 24
microeconomics 46
Minds Make Societies (Boyer) 25, 31
More, Thomas 164
Mori, Masahiro 200
Muller, Max 66
multilevel modelling 120
musicianship 188
Native Americans 150
Nature 14, 62, 68, 83–84, 86, 100, 105, 111, 114, 192, 196, 198, 222–223
neo-materialism 122
Newman, John Henry 231
Nixon, Richard 179
NPR 25
obesity 83, 114–115, 118, 134–135, 211
observational research 107
other-regarding preferences 53, 190
Paine, Thomas 174
Panchanathan, Karthik 92, 108, 176
Panglossian 47
paradigm shifts 212
Paris 99
peer review 20–21, 130–132, 197, 213, 228, 236, 242
Pepper, Gillian 57, 103–104, 106, 108
personality 10, 23–24, 88, 140, 145, 153, 158–159, 195
pessimistic meta-induction 15, 236
Petersen, Michael Bang 167
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein) 93
Pickett, Kate 111–112, 114–116, 121–122, 124–127
plasticity 158
playfulness 223
Poor man’s pudding and rich man’s crumbs (Melville) 129
Popper, Karl 244
poverty 3, 56, 98, 100–101, 103, 106, 122, 130, 134, 138, 144–146, 150, 157, 159–160, 205
Powers, Simon 55
preregistration 11
Price equation 61–63, 65, 67–68
Price, George 62
productivity 178, 183, 218, 221, 227–228
psychosocial comparison 122
publication iv, 16, 223–224, 227–229, 234
randomised control trials 149
rational actor model 46–47, 52–53, 80
reasoning 8–9, 13, 16–21, 23, 51–52, 54–55, 73, 75, 112, 124, 175, 177, 194, 241, 244
redistribution 122, 147, 157–158
replication crisis 9, 11, 16, 231, 235–236, 240
research metrics 217, 223, 231
Rickard, Ian 211
Rome, Roman 58, 60, 174, 184, 224
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 138
Russians 50
Sahlins, Marshall 220
Scandinavia 111
Science 54, 102, 141, 182, 188, 193, 198–199, 204, 207, 211, 215, 221–223, 225, 232–233, 243–244
scientific disciplines 182, 184, 188, 193
scientific method 8, 20–21, 36, 174, 233, 244
Scotland 194
security 163–164, 171–172, 177
self-interest 16, 54, 126, 177
sex 28, 47, 66, 82–83, 97, 101, 143, 170, 241
Shankland, Tom 62
Simonton, Dean Keith 225
skill 4, 29, 150, 153–155, 161, 164, 178, 182–184, 186–188, 190–193, 195–197, 203, 227
Smith, E. A. 51
smoking 56–57, 77–78, 103, 105–106
social cognition 167
social heterogeneity 49
social norms 27, 49, 53–54, 131–132, 244
social sciences 1, 26–27, 35–38, 51, 60–62, 75, 92, 133, 203–204, 206, 217, 235
socio-economic disparities 78, 98, 101, 104–105, 145, 203
Solow paradox 228
Sperber, Dan 16–17, 19–21, 24, 61, 72
Standing, Guy 166, 171, 173, 178
starlings 91, 192, 206, 237–238
Strauss, Johann 46
Stravinsky, Igor 46
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) 115, 137
Tamariz, Monica 207
teenage pregnancy 203, 205, 207
theatre companies 221
The Dresser (Harwood) 217
The Mind is Flat (Chater) 77, 240
theories 79
theory of planned behaviour 77, 92
The Spirit Level (Wilson and Pickett) 111, 114–115, 119
The Trial (Kafka) 239
Tirez sur le pianiste (Truffaut) 199
Titanic 107
Truffaut, François 199
Trussell Trust, The 137
Tversky, Amos 160
Tyneside Neighbourhoods (Nettle) 96, 101
ultimate explanations 73, 79, 203
uncanny valley 180, 200–202, 204–207, 209–210
United Kingdom 72, 104, 123, 134, 137–138, 145, 147, 164–166, 169–170, 175, 194
United States 26, 28, 50, 68, 70, 111–112, 114–115, 120, 134, 136, 138, 166, 179, 241
Universal Basic Income 150, 152, 163, 165–175, 177–180
visceral states 139
Weisman, August 31
Welch, John 14
Wilkinson, Richard 111–112, 114–116, 121–122, 124–127
Wilson, E. O. 232–233, 235, 242
Wilson, Margo 144
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 93
work 1, 4–5, 14, 24, 56, 59, 61, 74, 143, 152, 163–164, 166, 169, 171–173, 177–179, 182–183, 193, 218–226, 228–229, 235–237
writers 16, 23–24, 50, 219, 226, 233
writing 2, 11, 22, 38, 107, 131, 175, 198, 212–213, 218, 226, 232, 236, 254
Yellowstone National Park 39
Yule-Simpson effect 114
Zollman, Kevin 196
