{"product_id":"the-early-evolutionary-imagination-emelie-jonsson-9783030827403","title":"The Early Evolutionary Imagination: Literature and Human Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003eDarwinian evolution is an imaginative problem that has been passed down to us unsolved. It is our most powerful explanation of humanity's place in nature, but it is also more cognitively demanding and less emotionally satisfying than any myth. From the publication of the \u003ci\u003eOrigin of Species \u003c\/i\u003ein 1859, evolution has pushed our capacity for storytelling into overdrive, sparking fairy tales, adventure stories, political allegories, utopias, dystopias, social realist novels, and existential meditations. Though this influence on literature has been widely studied, it has not been explained psychologically. This book argues for the adaptive function of storytelling, integrates traditional humanist scholarship with current knowledge about the evolved and adapted human mind, and calls for literary scholars to reframe their interpretation of the first authors who responded to Darwin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emelie Jonsson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030827402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030827403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.66d","brand":"Emelie Jonsson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072556560639,"sku":"9783030827403","price":129.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fb2f37a1-e0ad-4242-aeae-5dc2a5503576.jpg?v=1685442679","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-early-evolutionary-imagination-emelie-jonsson-9783030827403","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}