Table of Contents
Preface 1
Introduction 2
Chapter 1 "Houston, We Have a Problem" 9
Chapter 2 These People Aren't Pretty 19
Chapter 3 I'm not Happy, Why Are They? 35
Chapter 4 Not Born to Be Bad 52
Chapter 5 Some of Us Act Like Starving People 59
Chapter 6 Our Ancestors Starved 71
Chapter 7 Before 4000 BCE, No One Was Bad 80
Chapter 8 The Birth of Starvation Culture 87
Chapter 9 Starvation Culture Grows Up 98
Chapter 10 Crazy Town: The First "Civilizations" 106
Chapter 11 The First Institutionalized Warfare 122
Chapter 12 Starvation Culture Travels the Globe 127
Chapter 13 How Pinker and Diamond Screwed Up 137
Chapter 14 Still Starving after all these Years 147
Chapter 15 The Fix: Erasing Starvation Culture 157
Chapter 16 The Fix: Replacing Starvation Culture 168
Appendices 174
References 181
Sources on the Ik, Inuit, Semai, !Kung and Mbuti 199