Forum for the discussion of Darwinian and cognitive approaches to culture.

All with an interest in the interplay between science and literature, music, the arts and popular culture are welcome. The list includes people with many different backgrounds including anthropology, psychology, political science, the various national and comparative literatures, biology and those who simply have an interest in biopoetics.

Questions may be addressed to biopoet-owner@yahoogroups.com

Read the recent NY Times article on the Literary Darwinists (also available under "files"):
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/magazine/06darwin.html

Be sure to check out the biopoetics bibliography (compiled by Joseph Carroll) at http://babel.uoregon.edu/cogsci/biopoetbib.htm