ch. 1 Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: An Introduction
ch. 2 Pop! Goes the Weasel: Life History and Why it Matters
ch. 3 Two Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed: Making More Monkeys
ch. 4 A Froggy Would A-Courting Go: How Weird is Monogamy?
ch. 5 Georgie Porgie, Pudding and Pie: Conception and Fertility and Fat
ch. 6 Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can: the Joys of Gestation
ch. 7 Cackle, Cackle, Mother Goose: Having a Baby
ch. 8 See-Saw, Margery Daw: Cultural Adaptations to Birth
ch. 9 Bye, Baby Bunting: Caring for a Child the Old-Fashioned Way
ch. 10 Old Mother Hubbard's Cupboard: the Magic of Milk
ch. 11 Hey Diddle Diddle: the Cultural Life of Milk
ch. 12 Papa's Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird: the Evolution of Dads
ch. 13 There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe: Lots of Babies Fast
ch. 14 The Mouse Ran Up the Clock: the Long Primate Childhood
ch. 15 Give a Dog a Bone: How Paleoanthropology Started to Chase Down Childhood
ch. 16 Grandmother, What Big Teeth You Have: How Teeth Gave the Game Away
ch. 17 The More We Get Together: the Importance of Social Learning
ch. 18 Girls and Boys Come Out to Play: Learning the Easy Way
ch. 19 Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill: the Hard Work of Childhood
ch. 20 How Many Miles to Babylon?: A Very Human Childhood
ch. 21 Thursday's Child: Far to Go.
