On the origin of stories : evolution, cognition, and fiction /
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Cambridge :
Belknap Harvard,
2010
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- Introduction: animal, human, art, story
- Evolution and nature
- Evolution and human nature?
- Evolution, adaptation, and adapted minds
- The evolution of intelligence
- The evolution of cooperation
- Art as adaptation?
- Art as cognitive play
- Art and attention
- From tradition to innovation
- Art, narrative, fiction
- Understanding and recalling events
- Narrative: representing events
- Fiction: inventing events
- Fiction as adaptation
- Earning attention (1): natural patterns: character and plot
- Earning attention(s): open-ended patterns: ironies of structure
- The evolution of intelligence (1): in the here and now
- The evolution of intelligence (2): beyond the here and now
- The evolution of cooperation (1): expanding the circle
- The evolution of cooperation (2): punishment
- Levels of explanation: universal, local, and individual
- Levels of explanation: individuality again
- Levels of explanation: particular
- Meanings
- Conclusion: retrospect and prospects: evolution, literature, criticism.