07.30.08
Literary Darwinism, the verdict, ‘crap’
UD’s O’Leary takes on Literary Darwinism: crap
The question of evolution and literature from a sociobiological angle is a useless fad, and bad science. But I recommend the study of the eonic effect, which brings together the idea of ‘evolution’, specially defined, and the emergence of art in world history, and there we can see that the correlation of art and evolutionary emergentism is actually quite exact, and something totally unexpected.
Since the article makes a point about the Iliad, consider the place and timing of Greek poetic phases in terms, first, of the Axial Age, then of the eonic effect.
Get the book! And get started.
Darwinists are pretty far off here. Not pretty! VERY far off.