Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture - Bog - Hardback

Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture

Part I: The Evolution of Imagination.- The Behaviorally Modern Human Imagination.- The Evolution of Imagination through Narratives and Belief.- Part II: Meta-Narratives.- Imagining the Gods.- The Evolution of Traits and Stories: Two Rival Templates for Self-Understanding.- Descent with Imagination: The Cultural Evolution of Traditional Narratives.- The Unimaginable Place in Nature: Literary Resistance to Darwinian Evolution.- Epic Communities and Cosmic..