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  • Foreword from the scientific side / E.O. Wilson
  • Foreword from the literary side / Frederick Crews
  • Introduction : Literature
  • a last frontier in human evolutionary studies / Jonathan Gotttschall and David Sloan Wilson
  • Part I. Evolution and literary theory
  • Literature, science, and human nature / Ian McEwan
  • Evolutionary social constructivism / David Sloan Wilson
  • From Lacan to Darwin / Dylan Evans
  • What happens in Hamlet? Exploring the psychological foundations of drama / Daniel Nettle
  • Human nature and literary meaning : a theoretical model illustrated with a critique of Pride and prejudice / Joseph Carroll
  • The problem of romantic love : Shakespeare and evolutionary psychology / Marcus Nordlund
  • Male bonding in the epics and romances / Robin Fox
  • Part II. The evolutionary riddle of art
  • Evolutionary theories of art / Brian Boyd
  • Reverse-engineering narrative : evidence of special design / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama
  • Part III. Darwinian theory and scientific methods
  • Quantitative literary study : a modest manifesto and testing the hypotheses of feminist fairy tale studies / Jonathan Gottschall
  • Proper hero dads and dark hero cads : alternate mating strategies exemplified in British romantic literature / Daniel J. Kruger, Maryanne Fisher, Ian Jobling
  • Crossing the abyss : erotica and the intersection of evolutionary psychology and literary studies / Catherine Salmon
  • Afterword / Denis Dutton.