Foreword by Alice Dreger ....................................... xi
Acknowledgments ................................................ xv
Contributor List ............................................. xvii
Introduction by Joseph Carroll ................................ xix
PART ONE: Transforming Our Vision of the Human
Story 1. The Meaning of Human Existence
EDWARD O. WILSON ............................................. 3
PART TWO: The Evolution of Human Sociality
1 Bullies: Redefining the Human Free-Rider Problem
CHRISTOPHER BOEHM ........................................... 11
3 The Structure and Evolution of Morality: Public and
Private Persona
HERBERT GINTIS .............................................. 29
4 Human Kinship as a Green Beard
HENRY HARPENDING and NATHAN HARRIS .......................... 55
5 Darwinian Evolution of Free Will and Spiritual Experience
MICHAEL R. ROSE ............................................. 69
PART THREE: Ancient Markings
6 Neanderthal Humanities
JOHN HAWKS .................................................. 89
7 Mark-Making as a Human Behavior
ELLEN DISSANAYAKE .......................................... 101
PART FОUR: Integrative Psychology
8 Consilience through the Integration of Engineering and
Social Science
BARBARA OAKLEY ............................................. 133
9 From Actor to Agent to Author: Human Evolution and the
Development of Personality
DAN P. MCADAMS ............................................. 145
PART FIVE: A Biocultural Perspective on Literature
10 What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan
Have in Common? Consilience and the Pop Culture of
Storytelling
CATHERINE SALMON ........................................... 167
11 Terrifying Monsters, Malevolent Ghosts, and Evolved
Danger Management Architecture: A Consilient Approach to
Horror Fiction
MATHIAS CLASEN ............................................. 183
12 Agonistic Structure in Canonical British Novels of the
Nineteenth Century
JOSEPH CARROLL, JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL, JOHN A. JOHNSON, and
DANIEL KRUGER .............................................. 195
13 Experiments with Experience: Consilient Multilevel
Explanations of Art and Literature
BRIAN BOYD ................................................. 223
PART SIX: A Challenge
14 The Limits of Consilience and the Problem of Scientism
MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI .......................................... 247
Afterwords
David Sloan Wilson ......................................... 265
Jonathan Gottschall ........................................ 269
Contributors .................................................. 273
Index ......................................................... 277
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