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On the origin of stories

evolution, cognition, and fiction

By Brian Boyd

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What triggers our emotional engagement with these works? What patterns facilitate our responses?

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  • The Play’s the Thing

    Let me explain a thing or two about humanists like me. There are legions of us who reach for our guns when we hear the word genome. That’s because we’re all too familiar with the history of eugenics, and we flinch whenever someone attempts an “evolut ... (read full critics)

    americanscientist published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Darwin Won’t Help

    In pre-Romantic times, a treatise on the mollusc or the optic nerve would have been considered part of literature. In the post-Romantic era, literature has looked on science with a much more sceptical eye. Once the arts come to achieve a monopoly on ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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  • Others 540 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0674033574
  • ISBN-13: 9780674033573
  • Publisher: Belknap Press
  • Pub date: May 30, 2009
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