Literature and Evolutionary Psychology

The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 931-952

  Carroll, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptationist literary study; Darwinian social science; Evolutionary psychology; Human nature; Nonadaptationist forms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987815208     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470939376.ch33     Document Type: Chapter

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