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Nature 439, 388-389 (26 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439388a; Published online 25 January 2006
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Literary darwinism: Textual selection
John Whitfield1
- John Whitfield is a freelance science writer based in London.
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Can reading the classics through Charles Darwin's spectacles reawaken literary study? John Whitfield reports.
When, at the beginning of The Iliad — and Western literature — King Agamemnon steals Achilles' slave-girl, Briseis, the king tells the world's greatest warrior that he is doing so "to let you know that I am more powerful than you, and to teach others not to bandy words with me and openly defy their king"1. But literary scholar Jonathan Gottschall believes that the true focus of Homer's epic is not royal authority, but royal genes.
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