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2010. Volume 1

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  Issue 1
  The Evolutionary Review Volume #1, Issue #1: Art, Science, Culture
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  An annual publication that uniquely and forcefully elucidates the intersections of evolutionary science, the humanities, arts, and popular culture.
  
  
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     Article 1: What Is Copernican?: A Few Common Barriers to Darwinian Thinking About the Mind /  Jiro Tanaka; /
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     Tanaka reflects on our evolved psychological resistance to decentering the human from our imaginative universe.
     
     
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     Article 2: Learning from the Immune System about Evolutionary Psychology /  David Sloan Wilson; /
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     The vertebrate immune system shows how the human mind can be both elaborately innate and impressively open-ended in its capacity for adaptation to new environments.
     
     
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     Article 3: When Biological Evolution and Social Revolution Clash: Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia /  Peter Swirski; /
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     Peter Swirski's analysis of the science behind Skinner's behaviourist utopia transcends the novel and extends to any and all forms of social engineering, whether in fiction or in real life, insofar as evolution reaches far too deep into the human psyche to be neglected when it comes to constructing-or just modelling-a better society.
     
     
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     Article 4: Facebook or Lonesome No More /  Craig T. Palmer, Alex Newsome, Kelsey Proud, Kathryn Coe; /
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     Palmer and his colleagues examine the evolutionary significance of the social networks created on Facebook by comparing them to the networks of kin that made up the social environment of our ancestors.
     
     
     
     
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     Article 5: Ins and Outs: An Evolutionary Approach to Fashion /  Leslie Heywood, Justin R. Garcia; /
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     By giving an evolutionary explanation for groupthink, Heywood and Garcia illuminate the dynamics of American Idol and last year's showdown between Adam Lambert and Chris Allen.
     
     
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     Article 6: 1859: Darwin, Mill, and Drake /  Kevin Scott Baldwin; /
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     1859 brings together Mill on individual liberty, Darwin on the struggle for survival, and the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania—all fuel for the modern ethos of aggressive individualism and expansive consumption.
     
     
     
     
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     Article 7: Challenging Evolutionary Metaphors of Survival: Morris' News from Nowhere /  Todd O. Williams; /
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     William Morris's utopian novel News from Nowhere forces us to reconsider culturally dominant metaphors of evolution based on self-interest and competition, while allowing us to "envision a new and more sustainable future.
     
     
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     Article 8: Commemorating Charles Darwin /  John van Wyhe; /
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     The 2009 Darwin commemorations, in all their multifarious international forms, are unprecedented in history to celebrate a single scientist, which renders it undeniable that Charles Darwin remains one of the most important and influential thinkers who ever lived.
     
     
     
     
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     Article 9: The Art Instinct in Its Historical Moment: A Meta-Review: The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton /  Joseph Carroll; /
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     Responses to Dutton's book provide a snapshot of the cultural moment, from the enthusiasm of educated general readers to the surly hostility of anti-evolutionists in the humanities.
     
     
     
     
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      Article 10: The Nature of Being Human: From Environmentalism to Consciousness by Harold Fromm /  Francisco J. Ayala; /
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      An elegant book, by its prose and its contents: environmental awareness, evolutionary psychology, and human consciousness are treated with verve, incisiveness, and no holds barred.
      
      
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      Article 11: Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique by Michael S. Gazzaniga /  Harold Fromm; /
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      Michael Gazzaniga's Human examines what makes the human brain distinctive in relation to brain features shared by most primates.
      
      
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      Article 12: War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires by Peter Turchin /  Carl N. Degler; /
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      The dynamics of group cooperation and inter-group rivalry form the core of Peter Turchin's theory of empire, a theory he amply illustrates with historical examples.
      
      
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      Article 13: Tracking Musical Chills /  Ellen Dissanayake; /
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      Dissanayake examines three scientific hypotheses that might account for the "chills" she experienced when listening to a Henry Purcell song; she concludes that recognizing the neurobiological sources of her experience enhanced her memory of it.
      
      
      
      
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      Article 14: Woman as Erotic Object in Mainstream Cinema: A Darwinian Inquiry into the Male Gaze /  Griet Vandermassen; /
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      Vandermassen argues that the male tendency to objectify women's bodies, as seen in mainstream cinema, has little to do with castration anxiety or with patriarchy; it is a reflection of evolved basic male and female sexual psychologies.
      
      
      
      
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      Article 15: Clichés Worth Singing: Narrative Commonplaces in Opera /  Brett Cooke; /
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      Opera is not only "what is too silly to be said is sung," it is highly repetitive; yet, as Darwinism explains, the "ultimate art" is nevertheless entertaining.
      
      
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      Article 16: Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle, 2008 /  Dylan Evans; /
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      Some Darwinian musings on the film "Slumdog Millionaire"-written on location in India.
      
      
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      Article 17: Poetics of Cinema by David Bordwell, and Embodied Visions: Evolution, Emotion, Culture, and Film by Torben Grodal /  Daniel Barratt; /
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      A student of film argues that Bordwell and Grodal occupy complementary poles in the evolutionary criticism of film.
      
      
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      Article 18: First Do Not Bore: Earning and Sustaining Attention in Contemporary Literary Fiction /  Tim Horvath; /
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      In the Internet age, literary writers must rely on both traditional and unconventional techniques in order to hook readers in; Horvath examines some older ways, such as immersing the reader, and some newer ones, like blogging and Youtube, that constitute the contemporary writer's toolkit for holding readers in thrall.
      
      
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      Article 19: On the Origins of Comics: New York Double-take /  Brian Boyd; /
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      By focusing on Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid, as he became the first comic character (1895-97), Boyd shows how evolution can help us understand better even a very recent art, and even one than normally aims at instant accessibility, and how it can combine fine details and local contexts with deep explanations and broad perspectives.
      
      
      
      
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      Article 20: The Horror! The Horror! /  Mathias Clasen; /
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      Scary stories offer an unsettling glimpse into the abyss of our deep evolutionary past where horrible dangers lurked just outside the flimsy circle of light cast by the communal bonfire.
      
      
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      Article 21: Darkly Darwinian Parables: Ian McEwan and The Comfort of Strangers /  Charles Duncan; /
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      McEwan's short novel captures the pathology of patriarchal power structures, and is captured by them.
      
      
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      Article 22:The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer by Jonathan Gottschall /  Robin Headlam Wells; /
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      To make sense of the extraordinary violence of Homeric epic, argues Jonathan Gottschall, you have to see Homer's heroes as prisoners of their genetic history: an inherited predisposition to xenophobic aggression gives rise to a self-perpetuating culture of violence that's almost impossible to break out of.
      
      
      
      
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      Article 23:Reading Edith Wharton through a Darwinian Lens: Evolutionary Biological Issues In Her Fiction by Judith P. Saunders /  Blakey Vermeule; /
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      Vermeule gives an appreciative account of Saunders' insights into Edith Wharton's Darwinian vision.
      
      
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      Article 24:On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Brian Boyd /  Gordon Burghardt; /
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      An evolutionary behavioral scientist looks at the playful nature of Brian Boyd's On the Origin of Stories.
      
      
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      Article 25:Shakespeare and the Nature of Love: Literature, Culture, Evolution by Marcus Nordlund /  Robin Fox; /
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      Nordlund uses all the resources of the biocultural approach to deliver a highly original take on all the classic questions about the nature of love in Shakespeare from parental love in Titus Andronicus to the massive jealousy of Othello.
      
      
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      Article 26:This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson /  José Ángel García Landa; /
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      A review of This Thing of Darkness, a book which sets out to sum up a life, an age, history itself—in fact, the odyssey of the whole human species.
      
      
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      Article 27:Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction by William Flesch. /  Michael Austin; /
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      In Comeuppance, William Flesch argues persuasively that we are attracted to fictional stories that reward virtue and punish vice because we are cognitively wired to feel sympathy for those who act altruistically and to express antipathy for defectors and cheaters.
      
      
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      Article 28:Literature, Science, and a New Humanities by Jonathan Gottschall /  David Michelson; /
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      Sure to rile as many as it inspires, Jonathan Gottschall's Literature, Science, and a New Humanities is necessary reading for anyone who has imagined what integrating the sciences and the humanities could look like.
      
      
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      Article 29:Interdisciplinary Essays on Darwinism in Hispanic Literature and Film: The Intersection of Science and the Humanities edited by Jerry Hoeg and Kevin S. Larsen /  Ervin Nieves; /
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      Jerry Hoeg and Kevin S. Larsen's Interdisciplinary Essays on Darwinism in Hispanic Literature and Film introduces readers to cutting edge new Darwinist concepts that have empowered the twelve authors in this volume (and enable all contemporary critics) to re-contextualize Spanish, Latin-American, and U.S. Latino Literatures beyond the banal and humdrum theories we've all grown to loathe.
      
      
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      Article 30: About the Cover /  David Augustus Hart; /
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      The artist responsible for the cover art describes the methods of his computer-generated evolutionary art.