Vol 1.1, Spring 2017

INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST ISSUE

Why We Need a Journal with the Title Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture

Joseph Carroll

Symposium on Human Nature

A Cross-Disciplinary Survey of Beliefs about Human Nature, Culture, and Science

Joseph Carroll, John A. Johnson, Catherine Salmon, Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, Mathias Clasen, Emelie Jonsson

Symposium Essays

Epistemic Territory and Embodied Imagination

Stephen T. Asma

Growing Primacy of Human Agency in the Coevolution Process

Albert Bandura

Human Nature Evolved to Enable Culture

Roy F. Baumeister

A Cultural Psychological View on Human Culture and Cultural Development

Pradeep Chakkarath

Evolutionary Approaches to Culture in Sociology

Paul DiMaggio

Response to the ESIC Questionnaire

Ellen Dissanayake

Charles Darwin on the Aesthetic Evolution of Man

Ian Duncan

Gender Identity: Nature and Nurture Working Together

Alice Eagly, Wendy Wood

Against Dichotomy

Anne Fausto-Sterling

The Best-Loved Story of All Time: Overcoming All Obstacles to Be Reunited, Evoking Kama Muta

Alan Page Fiske, Thomas W. Schubert, Beate Seibt

Stories of Minds and Bodies: The Role of Evolutionary Perspectives in Understanding Narrative

Melanie C. Green

History from an Evolutionary Perspective

Gregory Hanlon

Identity Politics in Science

Austin John Jeffery, Todd K. Shackelford

Human Nature

Dario Maestripieri

Cultural Evolution and Gene–Culture Coevolution

Peter J. Richerson

Sexual Dials (Not Switches) Theory: An Evolutionary Perspective on Sex and Gender Complexity

David P. Schmitt

Articles

The Bad Breaks of Walter White: An Evolutionary Approach to the Fictional Antihero

Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen

Cognitive Evolution and the Transmission of Popular Narratives: A Literature Review and Application to Urban Legends

Joseph M. Stubbersfield, Emma G. Flynn, Jamshid J. Tehrani

Kurt Vonnegut’s “Homage to Santa Rosalia”: The “Patroness of Evolutionary Studies” and Galapagos

Ian Marshall

Art in Early Human Evolution: Socially Driven Art Forms versus Material Art

Dahlia W. Zaidel

Animal Metaphors Revisited: New Uses of Art, Literature, and Science in an Environmental Studies Course

Kathleen Hart

Poetic Justice and Edith Wharton’s “Xingu”: An Evolutionary Psychological Approach

Judith P. Saunders

Review Essays

Neuroaesthetics: The State of the Domain in 2017

Review by: Aaron Kozbelt

“It Just Must Be True”: Tomasello on Cognition and Morality

Review by: Geoffrey Galt Harpham

Recent Critiques of Dual Inheritance Theory

Review by: Peter J. Richerson

Book Reviews

Antweiler, Christoph. 2016. Our Common Denominator: Human Universals Revisited

Review by: Donald E. Brown

Beecher, Donald, 2016. Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds: Cognitive Science and the Literature of the Renaissance

Review by: Michael A. Winkelman

Carroll, Sean B. 2016. The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters

Review by: Bernard Wood

Eibl, Karl. 2016. Evolution—Kognition—Dichtung: Zur Anthropologie der Literatur

Review by: Dirk Vanderbeke

Gopnik, Alison. The Gardner and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship between Parents and Children

Review by: David F. Bjorklund

Hallam, Susan, Ian Cross, and Michael Thaut, eds. 2016. The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology

Review by: Etsuko Hoshino

Harari, Yuval Noah. 2015. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Review by: Craig T. Palmer

Henrich, Joseph. 2015. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

Review by: Peter Turchin

Johnson, Dominic. 2016. God Is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human

Review by: Candace S. Alcorta

Kaufman, Scott Barry, and Carolyn Gregoire. 2015. Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind

Review by: Brian Boyd

McConachie, Bruce. 2015. Evolution, Cognition, and Performance

Review by: David Andrews

Parrish, Alex C. 2014. Adaptive Rhetoric: Evolution, Culture and the Art of Persuasion

Review by: Bret A. Rappaport

Paul, Robert A. 2015. Mixed Messages: Cultural and Genetic Inheritance in the Constitution of Human Society

Review by: Herbert Gintis

Ridley, Rosalind. 2016. Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie: An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness

Review by: Roel M. Willems

Van Schaik, Carel, and Kai Michel. 2016. The Good Book of Human Nature: An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible

Review by: Ellen Dissanayake