Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture

Introduction to the First Issue: Why We Need a Journal with the Title Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture Joseph Carroll The greatest enterprise of the mind has always been and always will be the attempted linkage of the sciences and humanities. The ongoing fragmentation of knowledge and resulting chaos in philosophy are not reflections of the real world but artifacts of scholarship. . . . Consilience is the key to unification. . . . Its surest test will be its effectiveness in the social sciences and humanities. The strongest appeal of consilience is in the prospect of intellectual adventure and, given even modest success, the value of understanding the human condition with a higher degree of certainty. Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998, 8-9) Given the recent convergence of evolutionary psychology and human behavioral ecologysociobiology, one might expect that the next generation of researchers will rapidly untangle all the major mysteries of human behavior and cognition. Unfortunately, I do not think that this will happen quickly. The main reason is that no branch of the evolutionary social sciences has an adequate understanding of human culture. Culture is a product of evolved cognitive mechanisms, but its existence may significantly alter behavioral patterns from those normally expected (from non-cultural organisms), and its emergence has probably uniquely shaped evolved human cognition and emotion Kim Hill, “Evolutionary Biology, Cognitive Adaptations, and Human Culture” (2007, 351) Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture is designed to make use of an opportunity that has only recently opened up for the social sciences and the humanities. These fields now have before them the prospect of a synthesis that would produce, for the first time, a comprehensive and scientifically robust understanding of the human condition. That synthesis would immensely enrich both the humanities and the social sciences. It would ground the humanities on the bedrock of scientific fact, and it would consummate the explanatory potential in the evolutionary social sciences. During the past four decades, the social sciences and humanities have moved in nearly opposite directions. Beginning in the late 1970s, many disciplines in the humanities began expanding their scope so as to become “cultural studies,” taking in not only some particular subject matter in the arts, philosophy, or history, but also popular culture, ideologies, and features of social identity such as gender, class, and race. While broadening their scope in this way, scholars in the humanities also aggressively championed the idea that culture is the constitutive force in human life. This primary emphasis on culture brought the humanities into alignment with the main idea that had guided the social sciences through most of the twentieth century, but it also separated the humanities from the most important development in contemporary social science. The culturalist revolution in the humanities coincided almost exactly with the sociobiological revolution in the social sciences (Freeman 1983; Fox 1989; Degler 1991; Tooby and Cosmides 1992; Carroll 1995; Abrams 1997; Pinker 2002). During the same period in which many humanists, like an earlier generation of social scientists, were affirming that culture constitutes all of human life, evolutionary social scientists were demonstrating that the human mind and body have evolved complex adaptive structures—anatomical, physiological, and neurological—that impel and constrain human behavior. The Darwinian revolution in the social sciences is not complete, but it has arguably now achieved decisive intellectual dominance in the study of human behavior. It has expanded very rapidly and has accumulated interlocking empirical findings about a vast array of human behaviors (Segerstråle 2000; Alcock 2001; Kenrick 2011; Buss 2016). Moreover, it has an unshakeable rationale in the logic of evolutionary biology. All life on earth has evolved, and human life did not somehow slip outside the process, billions of years old, that has produced all complex adaptive structure in living things. One need not be a partisan of evolutionary psychology to envision a future in which the adjective “evolutionary” will no longer be needed as a qualifier for the term “social science” (De Waal 2002). Eventually, and perhaps soon, all social science will be at least implicitly evolutionary. Over the long run, then, the prospect for a comprehensive evolutionary understanding of the human condition looks very promising. In the short run, there are serious obstacles. To succeed in their effort to gain a comprehensive understanding of the human condition, evolutionists must integrate the logic of evolutionary biology with an understanding of how culture, uniquely for the human species, interacts with biological principles such as natural selection, sexual selection, inclusive fitness, differential parental investment, and life history. Evolutionary social scientists still sometimes speak as if culture is peripheral to the biological imperatives that govern human behavior. Nonetheless, just in the past few years, some of the old blockages seem finally to be breaking up. A few dozen scholars in the humanities have been assimilating ideas, and sometimes methods, from the evolutionary social sciences. The psychology of religion has attracted the attention of numerous evolutionary social scientists. Many evolutionary social scientists now recognize that humans have special cognitive adaptations for social learning, and that these adaptations produce uniquely human powers of cooperation and cumulative innovation (Baumeister 2005; Tomasello et al. 2005; Boyd and Richerson 2007; Hill, Barton, and Hurtado 2009; Whiten and Erdal 2012; Henrich 2016). The most important next step is to expand evolutionary thinking about culture to encompass not just social life and technology but also “imaginative culture”—the whole wide world of shared mental life: tribal myths, jokes, graffiti, superstitions, dancing, songs, stories, poems, plays, acting, mimes, film, opera, baby talk, painting, sculpture, riddles, sit-coms, music, video games, architecture, digital media, cartoons, stand-up comedy, fads, fashions, advertising, internet memes, political iconography, religious iconography, tall tales, legends, historical narratives, sacred books, ceremonies, rituals, and the idioms and styles that give imaginative expression to social identity. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture is founded on the assumption that imaginative culture is an essential part of the human condition. Uncontroversially, one can affirm that imaginative culture reflects human motives, emotions, and forms of social organization, and that it thus offers a rich field of research for evolutionists in the social sciences and humanities. More controversially, but plausibly, one can argue that it is animated by passions grounded in biology. At the most controversial level, and the level of deepest significance, some evolutionists argue that imaginative culture is an adaptively functional feature of human behavior and that it interacts causally with evolved dispositions for survival, mating, parenting, maintaining kin relations, and cooperating with non-kin (Pinker 1997, 538-43; Wilson 1998, ch. 10; Dissanayake 2000; Scalise Sugiyama 2001; Tooby and Cosmides 2001; Salmon and Symons 2004; Scalise Sugiyama 2005; Boyd 2009; Carroll 2012; Gottschall 2012; Saunders 2015). These theorists argue that imaginative culture affects cognitive and emotional organization, influences motives, and thus helps regulate behavior. Human beings can make conscious decisions about value structures and can subordinate immediate impulses to abstract concepts and symbolic figurations. Perceptions and sensations do not enter the human mind as a series of tightly channeled stimuli that release a narrow repertory of stereotyped behaviors. Human minds contain a complex array of percepts, inferences, causal relations, contingent possibilities, analogies, contrasts, images, metaphors, and hierarchical conceptual structures. Humans reflect on their own mental life, imagine other minds, and imagine themselves reflected in the minds of others. They locate present reality within memories of the past and anticipations of the future. They create their own personal life stories and situate those stories within the legends and myths of their social groups. They create elaborate conceptions of the natural order, often populate that order with supernatural agents and spiritual forces, and picture their own actions and the actions of others within that order. In all these ways, humans live in imaginative virtual worlds. All the multifarious forms of such worlds, interacting with evolved dispositions, are the subject matter of this new journal. The evolutionary social sciences and evolutionary humanities are necessarily synthetic and interdisciplinary. Evolutionists typically need to assimilate information from evolutionary biology, paleoanthropology, primatology, anthropological research on hunter-gatherers, genetics, human life history theory, cognitive and affective neuroscience, linguistics, archeology, game theory, developmental psychology, social psychology, the psychology of mate selection, and still other fields (Dunbar and Barrett 2007; Gangestad and Simpson 2007; Buss 2016). Evolutionary humanists have to assimilate that same information and also develop expertise in specific historical periods and specific subject areas such as art, literature, religion, history, music, or philosophy. Evolutionary historians with an ambitious scope in political, economic, or intellectual history face special challenges in integrating universal principles of biology with historically contingent features of institutions and civilizations (Turchin 2006; Clark 2007; Smail 2008; Cochran and Harpending 2009; Fukuyama 2011; Pinker 2011; Fukuyama 2014; Wade 2014; Carroll 2015; Turchin 2015). Evolutionary studies in imaginative culture is still establishing itself as a distinct field. This new journal is designed to provide a nexus for research in that field—to help scholars stay informed about the newest thinking in evolutionary cultural theory, to illuminate connections between findings in seemingly disparate disciplines, to help establish a body of common knowledge, and to set standards for informed and theoretically competent commentary. The Darwinian revolution that has taken place in the social sciences should ultimately have a constructive effect on the humanities. So long as social scientists ascribed causal power to social and cultural forces alone, humanists could comfortably ignore biology. The larger intellectual context within which the humanities operate has now fundamentally changed. Humanist disciplines that ignore biology are increasingly isolated from other research fields and from the interests of generally educated readers. Institutional inertia within the humanities is in painful tension with the creative energy of intellectual life outside the humanities. Humanists have the option of releasing that tension by absorbing creative energy from the social sciences, and by contributing their own creative energy to the common enterprise. Already, evolutionary scholars and scientists who focus on humanistic subjects have produced a substantial body of work, much of it good, some of it excellent. That kind of work points a way toward the future. This journal is meant to be an avenue into that future. References Abrams, M. H. 1997. "The Transformation of English Studies: 1930-1995." Dædalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 126 (1): 105-31. Alcock, John. 2001. The triumph of sociobiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Baumeister, Roy F. 2005. The cultural animal: Human nature, meaning, and social life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Boyd, Brian. 2009. 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Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, vol. 2, issue 1, Spring 2017 Table of Contents Symposium on Evolutionary Economics Target Article Economic Theory and Social Policy: Where We Are, Where We Are Headed Herbert Gintis Responses to Target Article Where We are Headed versus Where We Want to Go: Economic Theory at a Crossroads? Robert L. Axtell Economic Ontology and the Science of Nonpachydermology Eric D. Beinhocker Economic Theory, Complexity and Social Policy David Colander Herbert “Ulysses” Gintis Mauro Gallegati Economics Can Be Powerful but Needs To Move On Paul Ormerod Should New Economic Thinking Be Incremental or Paradigmatic? David Sloan Wilson Economics and the Promise of Evolutionary Studies Ulrich Witt Rejoinder Simplicity and Complexity in Economic Theory Herbert Gintis **************************************************************** Articles Long Childhood, Family Networks, and Cultural Exclusivity: Missing Links in the Debate over Human Group Selection and Altruism Azar Gat T. H. Huxley, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Impact of Evolution on the Human Self-Narrative Emelie Jonsson **************************************************************** Review Essay Mental Time Travel into the Future The History and Future of Human Prospection Adam Bulley **************************************************************** Book Reviews Menelaos Apostolou. Sexual Selection in Homo Sapiens: Parental Control over Mating and the Opportunity Cost of Free Mate Choice. Reviewed by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair Richard G. Bribiescas. How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality. Reviewed by David C. Geary Michael Burke and Emily T. Troscianko, eds. Cognitive Literary Science: Dialogues between Literature and Cognition. Reviewed by Neema Parvini Mathias Clasen. Why Horror Seduces. Reviewed by Stephen T. Asma Daniel C. Dennett. From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds. Reviewed by Ronald de Sousa Whitley R. P. Kaufman. 2016. Human Nature and the Limits of Darwinism. Reviewed by Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen Kevin Laland. Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind. Reviewed by Thomas Morgan Richard H. McAdams. The Expressive Powers of Law: Theories and Limits Reviewed by Bret A. Rappaport Richard O. Prum. The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal world—and Us. Reviewed by Richard G. Coss Murray Smith. Film, Art, and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film. Reviewed by David Andrews Peter Turchin. Ages of Discord: A Structural Demographic Analysis of American History. Reviewed by Jack A. Goldstone Peter S. Ungar. Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins. Reviewed by Joel D. Irish David S. Wilson and Alan Kirman, eds. Complexity and Evolution: Toward a New Synthesis for Economics. Reviewed by Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap **************************************************************** Contributors

Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, vol. 1.2, Fall 2017 Table of Contents Articles The Appeal of the Primal Leader: Human Evolution and Donald J. Trump Dan P. McAdams Drawings of Representational Images by Upper Paleolithic Humans and their Absence in Neanderthals Might Reflect Historical Differences in Hunting Wary Game Richard G. Coss Blues for a Blue Planet: Narratives of Climate Change and the Anthropocene in Non-Fiction Books Daniel Helsing Closely Observed Animals, Hunter-Gatherers and Visual Imagery in Upper Palaeolithic Art Derek Hodgson Movement Is the Song of the Body: Reflections on the Evolution of Rhythm and Music and Its Possible Significance for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease Adrian D. Meehan, Benjamin W. Abbott, and Matz Larsson **************************************************************** Review Essays Philosophy of Imagination Imagination, the Junkyard of the Mind Geoffrey Galt Harpham Evolutionary Aesthetics Contemporary Evolutionary Aesthetics: The View from the Humanities (and Humanists) Aaron Kozbelt Evolution and Language (1) Language, Experience, and Imagination: The Invention and Evolution of Language Brian Boyd Evolution and Language (2) An Old Subject’s Great Escape from Recent Disciplinary Boundaries James Drake **************************************************************** Book Reviews Robert Aunger and Valerie Curtis. Gaining Control: How Human Behavior Evolved. Reviewed by Jennifer Vonk Richard W. Byrne. Evolving Insight: How It Is We Can Think about Why Things Happen. Reviewed by Kathleen R. Gibson Herbert Gintis. Individuality and Entanglement: The Moral and Material Bases of Human Social Life. Reviewed by Sanjit Dhami Amy Ione. Art and the Brain: Plasticity, Embodiment, and the Unclosed Circle. Reviewed by Dahlia W. Zaidel Isabel Jaén and Julien Jacques Simon (Eds.). Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature. Reviewed by Jerry Hoeg Tim Lewens. The Biological Foundations of Bioethics. Reviewed by Douglas Allchin Michaela Schrage-Früh. Philosophy, Dreaming, and the Literary Imagination. Reviewed by Stephen T. Asma David Livingstone Smith. How Biology Shapes Philosophy: New Foundations for Naturalism. Reviewed by Stephen M. Downes Peter Turchin. Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth. Reviewed by Ian Morris **************************************************************** Contributors

Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, vol. 1.1, Spring 2017 Table of Contents **************************************************************************** Introduction to the First Issue Why We Need a Journal with the Title Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture Joseph Carroll **************************************************************************** Special Section on Beliefs about Human Nature, Culture, and Science A Cross-Disciplinary Survey of Beliefs about Human Nature, Culture, and Science Joseph Carroll, John A. Johnson, Catherine Salmon, Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, Mathias Clasen, and Emelie Jonsson Symposium Essays Epistemic Territory and Embodied Imagination Stephen T. Asma Growing Primacy of Human Agency in Coevolution Process Albert Bandura Human Nature as Cultural Animals: People Evolved to Use Culture for Survival and Reproduction Roy F. Baumeister A Cultural Psychological View on Human Culture and Cultural Development Pradeep Chakkarath Evolutionary Approaches to Culture in Sociology Paul DiMaggio Commentary on ESIC Questionnaire Ellen Dissanayake Charles Darwin on the Aesthetic Evolution of Man Ian Duncan Gender Identity: Nature and Nurture Working Together Alice Eagly and 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, and 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 and 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, Jamshid J. Tehrani, and Emma G. Flynn 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 Neuroaesthetics: The State of the Domain in 2017 Aaron Kozbelt Tomasello’s Natural History “It Just Must Be True”: Tomasello on Cognition and Morality Geoffrey Galt Harpham Cultural Evolution Recent Critiques of Dual Inheritance Theory Peter J. Richerson ********************************************************************** Book Reviews Christoph Antweiler. Our Common Denominator: Human Universals Revisited. Reviewed by Donald E. Brown Donald Beecher. Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds: Cognitive Science and the Literature of the Renaissance. Reviewed by Michael A. Winkelman Sean B. Carroll. The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters. Reviewed by Bernard Wood Karl Eibl. Evolution-Kognition-Dichtung: Zur Anthropologie der Literature. Reviewed by Dirk Vanderbeke Alison Gopnik. The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship between Parents and Children. Reviewed by David F. Bjorklund Susan Hallam, Ian Cross, and Michael Thaut, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology. Reviewed by Etsuko Hoshino Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Reviewed by Craig T. Palmer Joseph Henrich. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter. Reviewed by Peter Turchin Dominic Johnson. God Is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human. Reviewed by Candace S. Alcorta Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire. Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind. Reviewed by Brian Boyd Bruce McConachie. Evolution, Cognition and Performance. Reviewed by David Andrews Alex C. Parrish. Adaptive Rhetoric: Evolution, Culture, and the Art of Persuasion. Reviewed by Bret A. Rappaport Robert A. Paul. Mixed Messages: Cultural and Genetic Inheritance in the Constitution of Human Society. Reviewed by Herbert Gintis Rosalind Ridley. Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie: An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness. Reviewed by Roel M. Willems. Carel van Schaik and Kai Michel. The Good Book of Human Nature: An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible. Reviewed by Ellen Dissanayake Gregory F. Tague. Evolution & Human Culture, and Making Mind. Reviewed by Jeff Turpin ********************************************************************** Contributors

Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, vol. 3, issue 1, Spring 2019 Table of Contents Symposium on Evolution and Narrative Identity Target Article “First we invented stories, then they changed us”: The Evolution of Narrative Identity Dan P. McAdams Responses to Target Article Narrative Identity: A Cautionary Tale Laura Akers and Gerard Saucier Narrative Self-Understanding Helps Construct the Unity of Self across Time Roy F. Baumeister Narrative Identity—Uniquely Human? A Commentary to McAdams (2018) Dorthe Berntsen Prompting Monopods: or The Options and Costs of Narrative Brian Boyd Response to Dan P. McAdams’s “First we invented stories, then they changed us”: The Evolution of Narrative Identity James Carney “A life without stories is no life at all”: How Stories Create Selves Robyn Fivush Description, Explanation, and the Meanings of “Narrative”: Comments on McAdams Patrick Colm Hogan Comments on Dan P. McAdams’ “The Evolution of Narrative Identity” Robert Hogan and Ryne A. Sherman The Implicit Narrativity of Objects and Ornaments—Widening the View Henrik Høgh-Olesen Evolutionary Personality Psychology: Integrating the Many Functional Adaptations That Make Us Who We Are Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair Of IPT and Archetypes Robert R. McCrae The Creation of Stories: For the Person, or for the Group? Kate C. McLean Can You Tell Stories about Human Intentional Agents without Words? Steven Mithen Human Choices Keith Oatley Rejoinder Identity, Narrative, Language, Culture, and the Problem of Variation in Life Stories Dan P. McAdams **************************************************************** Review Essays Beyond the End of the World Narratives of Gain and Resilience in the Anthropocene Daniel Helsing The Roots of Human Creativity Fire-Talks and “Hammocking” in the Runaway Species Henrik Høgh-Olesen Philosophical, Neurological and Sociological Perspectives on Religion E. Thomas Lawson **************************************************************** Book Reviews Lisa F. Barrett, Michael Lewis, and Jeannette M. Haviland Jones, eds. Handbook of Emotions, Fourth Edition. Reviewed by Timothy Ketelaar Russell Bonduriansky and Troy Day. Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution. Reviewed by Douglas Futuyama Pascal Boyer. Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create. Reviewed by Eveline Seghers Peter Corning. Synergistic Selection: How Cooperation Has Shaped Evolution and the Rise of Humankind. Reviewed by Bernard Wood Philip Lieberman. The Theory That Changed Everything: “On the Origin of Species” as a Work in Progress. Reviewed by David Young Andrew W. Lo. Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought. Reviewed by Paul Ormerod Ekkehart Malotki and Ellen Dissanayake. Early Rock Art of the American West: The Geometric Enigma. Reviewed by Robert G. Bednarik Martin N. Muller, Richard W. Wrangham, and David R. Pilbeam, eds. Chimpanzees and Human Evolution. Reviewed by Carel van Schaik Gil G. Rosenthal. Mate Choice: The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans. Reviewed by Carin Perilloux and Justin White Judith Saunders. American Classics: Evolutionary Perspectives. Reviewed by William E. Cain Steve Stewart-Williams. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve. Reviewed by Joseph M. Stubbersfield **************************************************************** Contributors

Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, vol. 2, issue 2, Fall 2018 Table of Contents Articles Religion, Evolution, and the Basis of Institutions: The Institutional Cognition Model of Religion Connor Wood and John H. Shaver Aesthetics and Fetishism: Key Stimuli and Power Objects Henrik Høgh-Olesen Evocative Advocates and Stirring Statesmen: Law, Politics, and the Weaponization of Imagery Carlton Patrick Evolutionary Perspectives on Popular Culture: State of the Art Catherine Salmon “The Mind, the Helpless Mind”: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychological Preoccupations in the Poetry of Stephen Dunn Judith P. Saunders A Tale of Two Species: The Origins of Art and the Neanderthal Challenge Eveline Seghers **************************************************************** Review Essay Get Shorty: Steven Pinker on the Enlightenment Geoffrey Galt Harpham **************************************************************** Book Reviews Maarten Boudry and Massimo Pigliucci. Science Unlimited? The Challenges of Scientism Reviewed by Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen Robert Boyd. A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species Reviewed by Thomas J. H. Morgan Antonio Damasio. The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures Reviewed by Shimon Edelman Gregory J. Feist, Roni Reiter-Palmon, and James C. Kaufman. The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Personality Research Reviewed by Aaron Kozbelt Helen Fisher. Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray Reviewed by Liana S. E. Hone Angela D. Friederici. Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity Reviewed by Philip Lieberman Yuval Harari. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Reviewed by Daniel Helsing Beth Lau, ed. Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind Reviewed by Brian Boyd Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe, eds. Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years Reviewed by Christopher Kavanagh Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber. The Enigma of Reason Reviewed by Brian Boyd Michael J. Ryan. A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction Reviewed by Henrik Høgh-Olesen D. Jason Slone and James A. Van Slyke. The Attraction of Religion: A New Evolutionary Psychology of Religion Reviewed by Jay R. Feierman Reuven Tsur. Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils Reviewed by Michael A. Winkelman Tyler Volk. Quarks to Culture: How We Came to Be Reviewed by Bernard Wood **************************************************************** Contributors