I just received a note from someone asking about adaptationist discussions of the Bible as literature and about discussions of sibling rivalry. I couldn't...
I mentioned having drafted a survey of adaptationist literary studies. There is final section on "Directions for Further Research," and I'll copy that here: ...
[just testing] I came across this in a philosophical paper: "Charles Darwin presented a similar type explanation in his notebooks: The general delusion about...
So welcome one and all to the new list! Still has that new list smell to it. By and large things should work the same as they did before. Again, the main...
I’m working on course proposals for fellowship applications and was trying to come up with a list of core texts for a course on adaptationist literary...
That's a good list. Here are just a few other specific items that might be good for these purposes: Flinn, Mark, and Ward, Carol. "Ontogeny and the Evolution...
Tom--I suppose Buss's new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology could count as a primer. JT ... From: Tom Dolack To: biopoet@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday,...
I am thousands of miles from my files, but I would recommend Dissanayake, Art and Intimacy (2000) over her Homo Aestheticus and my own Boyd, Literature and...
Sounds like a great class. I'd throw in Barash, David and Nanelle Barash, Madame Bovary's Ovaries. In a message dated 9/12/05 7:21:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,...
<snip> Hope everyone's fall is starting smoothly. </snip> Hey! What about us Southern Hemisphereans?! It's *spring* here. And I thought this was going to be an...
I'd certainly add Geoffrey Miller's admirable (in my view) The Mating Mind....a sexual selection argument about the origin of our peculiarly artistic brains......
Should be a very good aurora australis show tonight! (Don't fall off while looking up) JT ... From: Andrew Court To: biopoet@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,...
In "The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature," Geoffrey Miller suggests that the human mind evolved, much like the elaborate...
Dear biopoets, Just wanted to let y'all know that biopoet list member Tori Alexander had an impressive conference in NYC this past weekend with a bunch of...
Thanks, Alice. Any chance we can get some of those posted or made available? Tom ... From: biopoet@yahoogroups.com [mailto:biopoet@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf ...
... Yes, Tori is to be congratulated for a terrific colloquy, one of the best I've attended. ... Ah, that explains it! Hope you are feeling better. Tim & Jason...
... Yes, Tori is to be congratulated for a terrific colloquy, one of the best I've attended. -Indeed! ... Ah, that explains it! Hope you are feeling better. ...
... Hi Tom, I think Tori posted this earlier, and I'm not sure this is what you're looking for exactly, but here are the Dactyl colloquy participants and their...
I'm working up a hypthesis about the generation of counter-hegemonic groups or individuals by the hegemony itself, and need some leads from biology and EP....
I was at a conference over the weekend where a sociologist, Eugene Halton, made a remark about the skill involved in tracking it seems that he¹s known some...
Jeff, You might want to look at a couple of articles in Buss's Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, chapter 20, Tooby and Cosmides, "Neuorcognitive Adaptations...
Bill-- Thanks for your words of support for our project, and the references. We appreciated the lively dialogue that ensued at the colloquy both during the Q&A...
I am currently reading Hugh Brody's masterful Maps and Dreams (1982) regarding his experiences with Athapaskans. He makes some observations which are...
Bill/Tim, Just a hunch to offer here which occurred to me reading Bill - I doubt whether sophisticated communal hunting would have developed with just...
... Tim, I¹ve discussed Hobson¹s work in my book, and juxtaposed it with speculations by Jak Panksepp on the evolutionary origins of dreaming (see below). ...
Hi, Perhaps this conference is of interest to some list members: http://www.slsa.nl <http://www.slsa.nl/> - click "Streams" to get an overview of the themes...
Todos--I've been invited to propose a panel to next year's American Literature Association meetings in San Francisco, end of May, 2006. The panel (or round...
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