- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Moalem spends the second part of the final chapter discussing the evolutionary merit of the savannah hypothesis and the aquatic ape theory, drawing on the research by Elaine Morgan and Alister Hardy. They subscribe to the aquatic ape hypothesis, suggesting that humans developed as a response to living in and around water, which is why we have no hair and have fat on our skin (like other aquatic mammals) and why we have downward facing nostrils (which allow us to dive). This is in contrast to the widely-accepted savannah hypothesis, which holds that humans developed in response to the arid…