Foreword / by Alice Dreger -- Introduction / by Joseph Carroll -- Part 1. Transforming our vision of the human story -- The meaning of human existence / Edward O. Wilson -- Part 2. The evolution of human sociality -- Bullies : redefining the human free-rider problem / Christopher Boehm -- The structure and evolution of morality : public and private persona / Herbert Gintis -- Human kinship as a green beard / Henry Harpending and Nathan Harris -- Darwinian evolution of free will and spiritual experience / Michael R. Rose -- Part 3. Ancient markings -- Neandertal humanities / John Hawks -- Mark-making as a human behavior / Ellen Dissanayake -- Part 4. Integrative psychology -- Consilience through the integration of engineering and social science / Barbara Oakley -- From actor to agent to author : human evolution and the development of personality / Dan P. McAdams -- Part 5. A biocultural perspective on literature -- What do romance novels, pro-wrestling, and Mack Bolan have in common? : consilience and the pop culture of storytelling / Catherine Salmon -- Terrifying monsters, malevolent ghosts, and evolved danger management architecture : a consilient approach to horror fiction / Mathias Clasen -- Agonistic structure in canonical British novels of the nineteenth century / Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, John A. Johnson, and Daniel Kruger -- Experiments with experience : consilient multilevel explanations of art and literature / Brian Boyd -- Part 6. A challenge -- The limits of consilience and the problem of scientism / Massimo Pigliucci -- Afterwords / David Sloan Wilson, Jonathan Gottschall.
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