After publishing monographs on the Victorian cultural theorist Matthew Arnold and the modern American poet Wallace Stevens, he began integrating the evolutionary human sciences and literary study. All his work as author and editor since the early 1990s has been dedicated to that project. His books in evolutionary literary study are Evolution and Literary Theory (1995), Literary Darwinism (2004), Reading Human Nature (2011), and (co-authored) Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning (2012). He produced an edition (Broadview 2003) of Darwin’s Origin of Species and has coedited multiple volumes of essays and journal issues. In 2023, he received a “Lifetime Career Award” from the Evolution and Human Behavior Society.
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