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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Gottschall has a Phd in English and teaches at St. Lawrence University. David Sloan Wilson is professor of biology and anthropology at Binghamton University. Klappentext The goal of this book is to overcome some of the misunderstandings about the meaning of a Darwinian approach to the human mind generally, and literature specifically. It attempts to show how the human propensity for literature and art can be properly framed as a true evolutionary problem. Zusammenfassung The goal of this book is to overcome some of the misunderstandings about the meaning of a Darwinian approach to the human mind generally! and literature specifically. It attempts to show how the human propensity for literature and art can be properly framed as a true evolutionary problem.

Product details

• Authors: j wilson Gottschall
• Assisted by: Jonathan Gottschall (Editor), David Sloan Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2005
• EAN: 9780810122871
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2287-1
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Rethinking Theory; Rethinking Theory (Paperback); Rethinking Theory; Rethinking Theory (Paperback)
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies