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Joseph Carroll knows literary Darwinism not only through breaking in the field but also from helping so many newcomers over the fence, myself included. I agree with almost everything he writes in the bulk of the article, but since we learn more from disagreement, I will take issue with one section, The Adaptive Function of Literature. Carroll's account of my own proposal seems to me inaccurate, and his own proposal seriously wanting.

I have proposed that art is a human adaptation deriving from play, a widespread animal behavior. (45) Play evolved through the advantages of flexibility, of behavior not fully programmed genetically; the amount of play in a species ... 







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