Table of Contents
Volume 3, Issue 1
Editor’s Introduction
Alice Andrews
Mind and Human Nature
Autism, Psychosis, and the “Two Cultures”: C.P. Snow reconsidered in Light of recent Theories about Mentalistic Cognition
Jiro Tanaka
I Want to Believe: Why Even the Smartest Among Us Fall for the Illusion of Purpose
On Jesse Bering’s The Belief Instinct
John A. Johnson
And the Meek Shall Inherit the Earth (Somewhat): On Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature
David N. Stamos
In Praise of Cicero: Faith, Humanism, and the Origin of Moral Values
Robin Headlam Wells
The Descent of Man in Dehumanization: On David Lingstone Smith’s Less Than Human
David N. Stamos
Depressive Realism, Hypochondria, and Philosophy
Ben Irvine
Film
Editor’s Introduction
William Tooke
The Maltese Finch
Robert Kurzban
Evolutionary Biological Knowledge and Adaptive Problem in Mark Decena’s Dopamine
David Michelson
The Evolution of the Sexless, Loveless, Action Hero in Modern Film
Edward Sturman
Sex, Art, Pop Culture
Finding “God” in the Female Orgasm
Baba Brinkman
Birds and Bees Do It – Lafleur’s Trans-Species Theory of Aesthetics
Carol Hart
On Being an Asshole: An Interview with Bad-Boy Tucker Max
Scott Barry Kaufman
The World of Sport Entertainment: Evolutionary Drama in the Squared Circle
Catherine Salmon
Five Frequent Topics of Western Paint: An Evolutionary Perspective
Maryanne L. Fisher and Tami M. Meredith
Rationalizing My Maury Addiction through the Evolutionary Psychology It Reveals
Cory R. Scherer
Literature
Incest and the Necessity of In-Laws: Ancient Themes in Modern Narrative
Robin Fox
Cogito Ergo Scribo: Machines, Evolution, and Stanislaw Lem
Peter Swirski
The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels
Maryanne L. Fisher and Tami M. Meredith
A Question of Intention
On Pete Swirski’s Literature, Analytically Speaking
Will Sillitoe
Ecology and Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology and the Prospects for Human Sustainability
Michael E. Mills
Vegans vs. Evolution
Harold Fromm
Where Do Darwin’s Finches Come From?
John van Wyhe
How Not to Think About Evolution
Stuart A. Newman
Creative Writing
Editor’s Introduction
Leslie Heywood
New Jersey Poem
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
The Bear Hunt in New Jersey
Maria Mazziot Gillan
Dog Days
Jaimee Wriston Colbert
Some Days I Can’t Breathe
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Breath
Tandy Tillinghast
What Holds Us Together; The climate of Climbing the Stairs; On Spontaneous Generation; Rock is the premise; Why Bird?
Mary B. Moore
Sleeping with Crickets: Sex and Sonic warfare in the (Un)Natural World
Andrea Mele
They Call It Fracking; What Animals Teach Us
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Bear Fetish
Steven Church
Contributors
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