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You: A Natural History offers a multi-disciplinary investigation of your hyper-extended family tree, going all the way back to the Big Bang. And while your family tree may contain surprises, your hyper-extended history contains some truly amazing stories. As the result of learning more about who and what you are, and about how you came to be here, you will likely see the world around you with fresh eyes. You will also become aware of all the one-off events that had to take place for your existence to be possible: stars had to explode, the earth had to be hit 4.5 billion years ago by a planetesimal and 65 million years ago by an asteroid, microbes had to engulf microbes, the African savanna had to undergo climate change, and of course, any number of your direct ancestors had to meet and mate. 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You Are ComplexChapter 10. Your Ancestors Were BoringChapter 11. Your \"Cellmates\"Chapter 12. Your \"Boarders\"Part 3. The Atomic YouChapter 13. You Are What You Eat, AteChapter 14. Your Windblown PastChapter 15. Your Cosmic ConnectionChapter 16. Pulling Yourself TogetherPart 4. Your Place in the UniverseChapter 17. You Are a Gene MachineChapter 18. You Are (Merely) Part of LifeChapter 19. Your Many AfterlivesChapter 20. 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We are a species that can  and does  rapidly evolve cultural solutions as we face new problems, but the intricacies of our cultures mean that this often creates new challenges.Our species'' unique capacity for culture began to evolve millions of years ago, but it only really took off in the last few hundred thousand years. This capacity allowed our ancestors to survive and raise their difficult children during times of extreme climate chaos. Understanding how this has evolved can help us understand the cultural change and diversity that we experience today.Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson, a husband-and-wife team based at the University of California, Davis, began their careers with training in biology. The two have spent years  together and individually  researching and collaborating with scholars from a wide range of disciplines to produce a deep history of humankind. In A Story of Us, they present this rich narrative and explain how the evolution of our genes relates to the evolution of our cultures. Newson and Richerson take readers through seven stages of human evolution, beginning seven million years ago with the apes that were the ancestors of humans and today''s chimps and bonobos. The story ends in the present day and offers a glimpse into the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEncapsulating seven million years of human history can be challenging; however, the authors have done a brilliant job of extrapolating key themes and explaining them in a consumable format. An additional strength of this book is the acknowledgment of females and children in the evolutionary journey. In closing, this book is a great read for people of all levels of background in evolutionary science, who want to learn more about the recent findings in this field. * Yvanna Todorova, Evolutionary Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a splendid book ... Sometimes a book really works and this is one such case. * Michael Ruse, Quarterly Review of Biology *\u003cbr\u003e... a smart and engaging book by two seasoned thinkers and scientific writers... The stories embedded in each chapter by Newson and Richerson are ingenious, appealing, and reflect the solid scholarly material presented simply and directly before and after any given story. All the pieces fit together nicely... enjoyably readable and profoundly informative about the power of cultural evolution. * leonardo.info *\u003cbr\u003eA Story of Us provides a thoroughly modern and refreshingly gender-balanced analysis of human evolution. Accurate and authoritative, with superb illustrations, and innovative use of storytelling to bring the science to life, Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson have produced an exceptional book. Readers are not only given an up-to-date precis of human evolution, but also treated to an expert analysis of the role of culture as a driver of evolutionary adaptation and a much-needed critique of 'human nature.' * Kevin Laland, author of Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind *\u003cbr\u003eJargon-free books about human origins are rare as hens' teeth. A Story of Us—an easily readable 'new look' by biologists Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson—is hence extremely welcome. It displays an expert command of recent developments in fields ranging from anatomy and behavior through fossils to genetics, providing an engaging account of our evolution over the past 7 million years. The focus on social behavior and cooperation offsets past over-emphasis on competitiveness and aggression. It's also refreshing to see proper inclusion of women and youngsters, typically pale background figures in previous accounts. * Robert D. Martin, Emeritus Curator of Biological Anthropology, The Field Museum in Chicago and Academic Guest, Institute for Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zürich *\u003cbr\u003eA Story of Us hits all the right notes in imagining what life was like at seven major stopping-points of the human journey from our ape ancestors. Original, colorful and well-informed, Newson and Richerson's time machine is a beautifully conceived introduction to the evolutionary science of us. * Richard Wrangham, Ruth B. 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A Story of Us provides a rich and accessible account of how humans evolved and why we are so different from other species. * Joseph Henrich, Professor and Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University and author of The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous *\u003cbr\u003eA Story of Us is, without a doubt, the best current account of the evolutionary history of our species. 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Sex and Reproduction Key themes 2.1 Does sexual motivation reveal its “purpose”? 2.1.1 Sex has diverse purposes through co-option 2.1.2 Homosexuality could be one manifestation of co-option 2.1.3 Sexual features can also be co-opted for non-social purposes 2.2 Reproduction: sexual, asexual, and non-sexual 2.2.1 Not all organisms reproduce sexually 2.2.2 Non-sexual reproductions of human cells is through mitosis and cytokinesis 2.2.3 Asexual reproduction in complex organisms 2.2.4 Switching between parthenogenesis and sexual reproduction 2.3 Sexual reproduction fundamentals 2.3.1 Female and male: Eggs and sperm 2.3.2 Primary versus secondary sex characteristics 2.4 From fertilization to the production of offspring 2.4.1 External versus internal fertilization 2.4.2 Other variations in patterns of sexual reproduction Summary Further reading   3 Sex and Inheritance Key themes 3.1 How an Augustinian friar discovered the rules of sexual inheritance 3.1.1 Mendel’s peas were a “friendly” study system 3.2 Developing Mendel’s Law of Segregation 3.2.1 The second-generation offspring showed a surprising pattern of inheritance 3.2.2 The meaning of segregation in the making of gametes 3.3 Mendel’s Law of Independent Assortment 3.4 Updating Mendelian genetics 3.4.1 Using modern terminology 3.5 Applying Mendelian genetics to humans 3.5.1 Mendelian inheritance of blood groups in humans 3.6 Sex, DNA, and chromosomes 3.6.1 Chromosomes are the hereditary material 3.6.2 The human karyotype 3.6.3 DNA is the genetic code 3.6.4 How DNA encodes information 3.7 What happens to chromosomes in the making of gametes? 3.7.1 What is crossing-over? 3.7.2 The two divisions of meiosis 3.7.3 Sex and chromosomes that don’t crossover 3.7.4 How meiosis relates to Mendel’s laws Summary Further reading   4. 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Sexual Selection Key themes 5.1 Sexual selection is a sub-category of natural selection 5.1.1 Comparing examples of natural selection and sexual selection 5.1.2 Re-formulating the natural selection argument for sexual selection 5.1.3 Manifestations of sexual selection 5.2 Why are females usually the “limiting sex”? 5.2.1 Females usually invest more in reproduction 5.2.2 Does inter-sexual selection produce payoffs? 5.2.3 Does intra-sexual selection produce payoffs? 5.3 How mate choice based on ornaments increases female fitness 5.3.1 Genetic benefits in the runaway hypothesis: “Sexy sons” 5.3.2 Genetic benefits in the good genes hypothesis: Better survival 5.3.3 Benefits in the good resources hypothesis: Honest promises 5.4 Sex role reversal 5.4.1 Sex role reversal: Adjusting investments made by males and females 5.5 Not all intra-sexual competition involves fighting 5.5.1 Scrambles are a form of indirect competition 5.5.2 Endurance and subterfuge are also forms of indirect competition 5.5.3 Sperm competition Summary Further reading   6. Mating Systems Key themes 6.1 There are five major types of mating systems 6.2 Monogamy 6.2.1 Distinguishing among types of monogamy 6.2.2 Hypotheses for monogamy 6.3 Polygyny is the most common form of polygamy 6.3.1 Two models for polygyny 6.3.2 Human polygyny 6.4 The benefits for females of mating with multiple males 6.4.1 Non-monogamous females hedge their bets against infertility 6.4.2 Non-monogamous females reap genetic benefits 6.4.3 Non-monogamous females can reap direct benefits 6.5 Polyandry 6.5.1 Polyandrous mating systems are much less common than polygynous ones 6.6 Polygynandry 6.6.1 Reproductive skew 6.6.2 Cooperative breeding 6.7 Promiscuity 6.7.1 Factors associated with promiscuity 6.7.2 Scramble competitions are usually promiscuous mating systems 6.7.3 “Lek polygyny” is a promiscuous system resembling hook-up culture Summary Further reading   7. Sexual Conflict Key themes 7.1 Strategies for sexual success 7.1.1 A comment on terminology 7.1.2 Sexual strategies exist in the context of sexual conflict 7.2 Realms of sexual conflict 7.2.1 Sexual conflict before mating 7.2.2 Sexual conflict during mating 7.2.3 Sexual conflict after mating 7.2.4 Sexual conflict during parenting 7.3 Mating strategies can change with circumstances 7.3.1 Making the best of things 7.3.2 Life history theory argues for plastic mating strategies 7.3.3 Sex allocation 7.4 Same-sex parenting Summary Further reading   8. Sex Determination and Differentiation Key themes 8.1 Are male and female bodies the only two options in sex determination? 8.2 The familiar method of sex determination relies on X- and Y-chromosomes 8.2.1 Using insects to discover the role of sex chromosomes 8.2.2 The X- and Y-chromosomes in humans 8.2.3 Little genetic differences between men and women, but big phenotypic differences 8.2.4 The SRY gene and transcription 8.3 Not all genetic sex determination relies on the XY system 8.3.1 Genetic sex determination without Y-chromosomes 8.3.2 Are females ever the heterogametic sex? 8.3.3 Chromosomal sex determination where hermaphroditism is a phenotype 8.3.4 Genetic sex determination in honeybees 8.4 Environmental sex determination 8.4.1 Temperature is a non-social sex-determination system 8.4.2 Environmental sex determination can override genetic sex determination 8.4.3 Can mothers use temperature to select their offspring’s sex? 8.4.4 Social systems of environmental sex determination 8.4.5 Anomalous sex determination caused by a member of a different species 8.4.6 Anomalous sex determination by ecotoxins Summary Further reading   9. Human Sexual Anatomy and Regulation Key themes 9.1 Human sexual differentiation and function is highly dependent on hormones 9.1.1 The endocrine system regulates hormones in the bloodstream 9.1.2 Major hormones that regulate sexual development, function, and behavior 9.2 Sex differentiation is part of development 9.2.1 Human sexual differentiation before birth 9.3 The male reproductive system 9.3.1 Further male differentiation during the prenatal period 9.3.2 Male sexual development at puberty 9.3.3 Sexual anatomy of the human adult male 9.4 The female reproductive system 9.4.1 Further female differentiation during the prenatal period 9.4.2 Female sexual differentiation at puberty 9.4.3 Sexual anatomy of the human adult female 9.5 Anomalous sexual phenotypes in humans 9.5.1 Consequences of anomalies in the sex chromosomes 9.5.2 Intersex conditions that result from dysfunctional alleles 9.5.3 When girls become men at puberty 9.6 Sex linkage: Why some genetic disorders occur mostly in males 9.7 Cancers of sexually differentiated organs and tissues 9.7.1 Cancers associated with male organs 9.7.2 Cancers associated with female organs Summary Further reading   10. 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