Includes bibliographical references and index
David M. Buss: Part I. Evolution and human nature: Evolutionary psychology: the new science of the mind (2008)
Charles Darwin: Recapitulation and conclusion, from On the origin of species (1859)
Richard Dawkins: The digital river (1995)
Charles Darwin: General summary and conclusion, from The descent of man (1871)
Edward O. Wilson: Man: from sociobiology to sociology (1975)
Donald E. Brown: The universal people (1991)
Edward O. Wilson: Sociobiology at century's end (2000)
Steven Pinker: Evolution and explanation (2005)
David Sloan Wilson: Evolutionary social constructivism (2005)
Steven Pinker: Part II. The riddle of art: Art and adaptation (1997)
Edward O. Wilson: The arts and their interpretation (1998)
Ellen Dissanayake: Art and intimacy: how the arts began (2000)
Geoffrey Miller: Arts of seduction (2000)
John Tooby and Leda Cosmides: Does beauty build adapted minds? toward an evolutionary theory of aesthetics, fiction, and the arts (2001)
Denis Dutton: The uses of fiction (2009)
Brian Boyd: Part III. Literature, film, and evolution: theory: Getting it all wrong: bioculture critiques cultural critique (2006)
Joseph Carroll ... [et al.]: Imagining human nature
Edward Slingerland: Two worlds: the ghost and the machine (2008)
Marcus Nordlund: Consilient literary interpretation (2002)
Robin Headlam Wells: Humanism and human nature in the renaissance (2005)
Joseph Anderson: The reality of illusion (1996)
Murray Smith: Darwin and the directors: film, emotion, and the face in the age of evolution (2003)
David Bordwell: What snakes, eagles, and rhesus macaques can teach us (2008)
Jonathan Gottschall: Part IV. Interpretations: Homeric women: re-imagining the fitness landscape (2008)
Michelle Scalise Sugiyama: New science, old myth: an evolutionary critique of the oedipal paradigm (2001)
Daniel Nettle: The wheel of fire and the mating game: explaining the origins of tragedy and comedy (2005)
Marcus Nordlund: Jealousy in Othello (2007)
Nancy Easterlin: Wordsworth, psychoanalysis, and the "discipline of love" (2000)
William Flesch: Vindication and vindictiveness: Oliver Twist (2007)
Joseph Carroll: The cuckoo's history: human nature in Wuthering Heights (2008)
Brett Cooke: Human nature, utopia, and dystopia: Zamyatin's We (2002)
Judith P. Saunders: Paternal confidence in Zora Neale Hurston's "The gilded six-bits"
Joseph Anderson: Character in Citizen Kane (1996)
David Bordwell: Convention, construction, and cinematic vision (1996/2008)
Brian Boyd: Art and evolution: the avant-garde as test case: Spiegelman in The narrative corpse (2008)
Jonathan Gottschall: Part V. Literature as laboratory: Literature, science, and a new humanities (2008)
Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons: Slash fiction and human mating psychology (2004)
Michelle Scalise Sugiyama: Cultural variation is part of human nature: literary universals, context-sensitivity, and "Shakespeare in the bush" (2003)
Joseph Carroll ... [et al.].: Paleolithic politics in British novels of the longer nineteenth century
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