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Beatrice Marovich on Donovan Schaefer’s Religious Affects Donovan O. Schaefer, Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power, Duke University Press, 2015, 304 pp., $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper In the 1960s and 1970s, while observing chimpanzees...

Are we witnessing a new synthesis for evolutionary theory? If so, when did it begin? These are contested questions but one thing is known for sure: The phrase “Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES)” was coined by the philosopher/evolutionist Massimo...

Back in 1997, James Shapiro wrote an article for the Boston Review entitled "A Third Way." It was a very confusing article. His main point seemed to be that conventional neo-Darwinism wasn't a complete picture of modern evolutionary theory. That part...

Will Harris Michael North Novelty: A History of the New University of Chicago Press, 2013 £26.00 264 pages ISBN 978-0226077871 … … Though New Historicism might have faded, the allure of the “New History” is undimmed...

Darwin was wrong about dating A couple of evolutionary psychologists recently published a book about human sexual behavior in prehistory called “Sex at Dawn.” Upon hearing of the project, one colleague, dubious that a modern scholar could hope to know...