Guest Editor’s Introduction
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Metaphors, Models, and Modularity
A Darwinian Revolution in the Humanities
Free As We Need To Be
Notes Toward a Darwinian Left
Consilience, Ecocriticism, and Ecological Destruction
Evolution and a Dual Processing Theory of Culture: Applications to Moral Idealism and Political Philosophy
From Morality to Law: The role of Kinship, Tradition, and Politics
Are Liberals Mutants? Human History as Evolutionary History
Anti-Feminism in Early Western Thought: St. Jerome, Evolution, and Culture
Money, Age, and Marriage in Venice: A Brief Biocultural History
Review of three books on Evolution and Religion:
The Biology of Religious Behavior: The Evolutionary Origins of Faith and Religion, edited by Jay R. Feierman
The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques, edited by Joseph Bulbulia et al.
The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures, by Nicholas Wade
Review of two books on Snakes:
Them that Believe. The Power and Meaning of the Christian Serpent-Handling Tradition, by Ralph W. Hood Jr. and W. Paul Williamson
The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent: Why We See So Well, by Lynne A. Isbell
Biology, Culture, and Religiously Motivated Suicide Terrorism: An Evolutionary Perspective
How Problem Solving and Neurotransmission in the Upper Paleolithic Led to the Emergence and Maintenance of Memetic Equilibrium in Contemporary World Religions
Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography: The Story of a Successful Social Animal
Ancestral Footprints: An Adaptationist Approach to Vernon Jordan’s Life Story
Rhymes without Reason? Or: The Improbable Evolution of Poetry
Review of Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics: A Darwinist Reading, by Clinton Machann
Review of Why We Care about Literary Characters, by Blakey Vermeule
Of Morality, Proverbial Wisdom, and Bernard Malamud’s God’s Grace
Asymmetry in Male and Female Storyteller Priorities: An Analysis by Gender of a Sample of Published Folk Narratives Collected from Storytellers Worldwide
Literature, Evolution, and Cognition ~ Questions, Answers, Questions ~ The Example of Hamlet
Review of Literature, Science, and a New Humanities, by Jonathan Gottschall
Imitation and Literary Evolution
Music, Fire, and Evolution
Musical Truth in Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov
Responses by Joseph Carroll and Ian Roberts
Rejoinder by Steve Moxon
Responses by Joseph Carroll, John Price, Diana Kornbrot, and Robert Stonjek
Rejoinder by Anja Müller-Wood & John Carter Wood
Responses by Joseph Carroll, Diana Kornbrot, Anja Müller-Wood & John Carter Wood, and Robert Stonjek
Rejoinder by John Scott Price
Rejoinder by Peter J. Richerson
Responses by Joseph Carroll, Diana Kornbrot, and Anja Müller-Wood & John Carter Wood
Rejoinder by Robert Karl Stonjek
Responses by Joseph Carroll and Robert Karl Stonjek
Special Evolutionary Issue: TABLE OF CONTENTS ORGANIZED BY TOPICS
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Joseph Carroll
Guest Editor’s Introduction
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PART ONE: ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
1. The Evolutionary Turn in Psychology and the Humanities
Gordon H. Orians
Metaphors, Models, and Modularity
Joseph Carroll
A Darwinian Revolution in the Humanities
2. Politics and Ethics
Theoretical Essays
Harold Fromm
Free As We Need To Be
Jiro Tanaka
Notes Toward a Darwinian Left
Jerry Hoeg
Consilience, Ecocriticism, and Ecological Destruction
Kevin MacDonald
Evolution and a Dual Processing Theory of Culture: Applications to Moral Idealism and Political Philosophy
Kathryn Coe & Craig T. Palmer
From Morality to Law: The role of Kinship, Tradition, and Politics
Michael Ryan
Are Liberals Mutants? Human History as Evolutionary History
Historical Studies
Louis Martin
Anti-Feminism in Early Western Thought: St. Jerome, Evolution, and Culture
Linda L. Carroll
Money, Age, and Marriage in Venice: A Brief Biocultural History
3. Religion
Gordon Burghardt
Review of three books on Evolution and Religion:
The Biology of Religious Behavior: The Evolutionary Origins of Faith and Religion, edited by Jay R. Feierman
The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques, edited by Joseph Bulbulia et al.
The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures, by Nicholas Wade
Gordon Burghardt
Review of two books on Snakes:
Them that Believe. The Power and Meaning of the Christian Serpent-Handling Tradition, by Ralph W. Hood Jr. and W. Paul Williamson
The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent: Why We See So Well, by Lynne A. Isbell
Candace S. Alcorta
Biology, Culture, and Religiously Motivated Suicide Terrorism: An Evolutionary Perspective
Christopher W. diCarlo
How Problem Solving and Neurotransmission in the Upper Paleolithic Led to the Emergence and Maintenance of Memetic Equilibrium in Contemporary World Religions
4. Literature
American Autobiography
Judith P. Saunders
Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography: The Story of a Successful Social Animal
Charles Duncan
Ancestral Footprints: An Adaptationist Approach to Vernon Jordan’s Life Story
Poetry
Dirk Vanderbeke
Rhymes without Reason? Or: The Improbable Evolution of Poetry
Todd. O. Williams
Review of Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics: A Darwinist Reading, by Clinton Machann
Prose Fiction
Michael Austin
Review of Why We Care about Literary Characters, by Blakey Vermeule
Peter Swirski
Of Morality, Proverbial Wisdom, and Bernard Malamud’s God’s Grace
Kathleen Ragan
Asymmetry in Male and Female Storyteller Priorities: An Analysis by Gender of a Sample of Published Folk Narratives Collected from Storytellers Worldwide
Literary Theory
Brian Boyd
Literature, Evolution, and Cognition ~ Questions, Answers, Questions ~ The Example of Hamlet
John V. Knapp
Review of Literature, Science, and a New Humanities, by Jonathan Gottschall
Tom Dolack
Imitation and Literary Evolution
5. Music
Stephen Davies
Music, Fire, and Evolution
Brett Cooke
Musical Truth in Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov
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PART TWO: SYMPOSIUM ON THE QUESTION
“HOW IS CULTURE BIOLOGICAL?”
Six Essays with Responses and Rejoinders
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1. Steve Moxon
Culture IS Biology: Why We Cannot “Transcend” Our Genes, or Ourselves
Responses by Joseph Carroll and Ian Roberts
Rejoinder by Steve Moxon
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2. Anja Müller-Wood & John Carter Wood
How Is Culture Biological? Violence: Real and Imagined
Responses by Joseph Carroll, John Price, Diana Kornbrot, and Robert Stonjek
Rejoinder by Anja Müller-Wood & John Carter Wood
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3. John Scott Price
The Culture of Religious Belief Systems and Changes of Belief System
Responses by Joseph Carroll, Diana Kornbrot, Anja Müller-Wood & John Carter Wood, and Robert Stonjek
Rejoinder by John Scott Price
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4. Peter J. Richerson
Culture Is an Active Part of Biology
Responses by Joseph Carroll, Diana Kornbrot, Anja Müller-Wood & John Carter Wood, and Robert Stonjek
Rejoinder by Peter J. Richerson
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5. Robert Karl Stonjek
A Brief but Plausible History of Culture
Responses by Joseph Carroll, Diana Kornbrot, and Anja Müller-Wood & John Carter Wood
Rejoinder by Robert Karl Stonjek
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6. Lionel Tiger
Culture As Homeostatic Mechanism
Responses by Joseph Carroll and Robert Karl Stonjek
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