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Denis Dutton on Madame Bovary's Ovaries
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Survival of the Fittest Characters
Washington
Post Book World , August 7, 2005
Denis Dutton
www.denisdutton.com
Madame Bovary’s Ovaries: a Darwinian Look at Literature , by
David P. Barash and Nanelle R. Barash. New York: Delacourt Press, 2005,
272 pp. $24.00 paper, $32.00 cloth.
Human nature, evolved over millions of years and present in our genes,
expresses itself not only in bedrooms, boardrooms, and battlefields but
in creative human pursuits, including literature. This, anyway, is the
premise of an amusing, if over-ambitious, book by psychologist/zoologist
David P. Barash and his college-student daughter, Nanelle.
The Barashes line up exemplary works of fiction from Homer to Saul Bellow alongside the major claims of evolutionary psychology. The prehistoric origins of human conduct and desires, so the idea goes, should be able to tell us something about the conduct and values of characters in fiction. The results are mixed: Some of the Barashes’ explanations are far-fetched, but others have the power to jolt us into an altered view of familiar literary stories and characters. Among the authors’ best insights is their description of Jane Austen’s fiction in terms of sexual selection theory. Darwinian evolution depends on natural selection: Unfit individuals die off in a hostile environment, while the survivors pass their fitness on to descendants. But for Darwin, there is also a second, "
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