... In this chapter, affect theory is brought into conversation with a convergent reading of deconstruction and postadaptationist evolutionary biology. Daniel C. Dennett’s adaptationist version of Darwinism proposes that biology can be analyzed in terms of a set of rationalizing evolutionary...

... seriously. The chapter gives a detailed critique of quantitative analysis of nationalism and of evolutionary cognitive understandings of religion and shows the superiority of a more interpretive anthropology in the study of nationalism and religion. It thus gives not only a critique of some existing...

... to as “incessant” menstruation, an evolutionary and potentially hazardous remnant that can be “treated” hormonally. The chapter critically engages with the idea that women should be able to choose if and when to menstruate in light of the reasons they give for their choice. The practice appeals to an ideal...

... In this chapter recent evolutionary biologists such as Lynn Margulis and Terrence Deacon are put into conversation with philosophers of cultural creativity such as Nietzsche and Thomas Nagel. The former insinuate microprocesses of creativity into the logic of species evolution itself. In so...

... to the rescue, along with biologist Deborah Gordon’s theories about ant interactions and colony behavior, to elaborate the possibilities of ecological evolutionary developmental biology and nonhierarchical systems theories for shaping the best stories. Science fiction and science fact cohabit happily...

... of “philosophy's pastorate” is examined via the pathway imageries that inform the positions developed by Bergson and Grosz via their engagements with evolutionary theory. The main line of criticism offered develops the argument initially proposed by Walter Benjamin concerning the one-sided materialism...

.... This chapter is concerned with contexts when modelers deny or disavow their inventive use of machine analogies, that is, when they give the impression that they are merely unveiling the underlying machinery of life. It argues that just as these molecular machines can be naturalized as nature’s evolutionary...

..., considers affects as prestructured emotional responses (shame, fear, happiness, etc.) to things and relationships. The phenomenological approach emerging out of the work of Silvan Tomkins is more consistent with a Darwinian evolutionary perspective. This understanding helps the humanities to draw more...

... of ideology from affect theory with the emerging field of evolutionary ethics, the chapter shows that both the desire to produce violent in-group/out-group exclusions and the desire to resolve those exclusions by expanding intercommunity relationships emerge out of prelinguistic, animal roots. These affective...

....” It contributed to Haddon's extensive collection, the basis of his theory of three races based on hair form. This chapter traces the postcollection journey of the hair sample from Golden Ridge to evolutionary biologist Eske Willerslev, who used it to produce the “first Aboriginal genome” in 2011. Willerslev's...