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      The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch

      Jonathan Gottschall

      An English professor starts training in mixed martial arts, exploring the science and history behind the violence of men

      When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym opens across the street…

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      The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down

      Jonathan Gottschall

      Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy it

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      The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer

      Jonathan Gottschall (Instructor, Washington & Jefferson College, Pennsylvania)

      Homer’s epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes and chiefdoms, fractured by constant strife. Professor Gottschall adopts the innovative approach of analysing Homeric conflict from the perspective of…

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      The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer

      Jonathan Gottschall (Instructor, Washington & Jefferson College, Pennsylvania)

      Homer’s epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes and chiefdoms, fractured by constant strife. Professor Gottschall adopts the innovative approach of analysing Homeric conflict from the perspective of…

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      The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

      Instructor Jonathan Gottschall (Washington & Jefferson College, Pennsylvania)

      In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. Drawing on neuroscience and evolutionary biology, Storytelling Animal explores what stories reveal about human nature…

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      Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader

      Evolution, Literature, and Film offers a comprehensive introduction to what has become the most challenging and widely-discussed new approach to understanding literature and film. Featuring thirty-nine essays by pioneering scholars…

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      Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader

      Evolution, Literature, and Film offers a comprehensive introduction to what has become the most challenging and widely-discussed new approach to understanding literature and film. Featuring thirty-nine essays by pioneering scholars…

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      The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative

      The goal of this book is to overcome some of the misunderstandings about the meaning of a Darwinian approach to the human mind generally, and literature specifically. It attempts to…

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