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Joseph Carroll, the doyen of Literary Darwinism, has convincingly portrayed the present (mainly Anglo-American) state of the art in the application of evolutionary theory to the analysis of literature. We do not have any objections against his very instructive and well-balanced sketch, but we would like to point to some key aspects which might follow out of the European tradition. (70)
Only few culturalists would nowadays still deny the theory of evolution and its basic significance for the explanation of human behavior; conversely, only few biologically oriented naturalists would still deny the significance of culture for the explanation of human behavior. The ...