Biopoetics : evolutionary explorations in the arts / edited by Brett Cooke and Frederick Turner.

I. Overview and origins
Biopoetics : the new synthesis / Brett Cooke
"Making special" - an undescribed human universal and the core of a behavior of art / Ellen Dissanayake
The descent of fantasy / Eric S. Rabkin
Preliminary remarks on literary memetics / Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
On art / Edward O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson on art / Brett Cooke
An ecopoetics of beauty and meaning / Frederick Turner
"Theory," anti-theory, and empirical criticism / Joseph Carroll
II. New sociobiological explorations in art
Biochemicals and brains : natural selection for manipulators of sexual ecstacy and fantasy / Wayne E. Allen
Sexual property in Pushkin's "The snowstorm" : a Darwinist perspective / Brett Cooke
Gethenian nature, human nature, and the nature of reproduction : a fantastic flight through ethnographic hyperspace / Lee Cronk
The dance with darkness : the limits of human interest in science fiction / Gary Westfahl
Do cognitive predispositions predict or determine literary value judgments? Narrativity, plot, and aesthetics / Nancy Easterlin
Art : the replicable unit / Kathryn Coe
Imagination and survival : the case of fantastic literature / Eric S. Rabkin
The "novel' novel : a sociobiological analysis of the novelty drive as expressed in science fiction / Joseph D. Miller
Tragedy and chaos / Alexander Argyros
The prehistory of theatre : a path with six turnings / Brian Hansen
Antecedents of musical meaning in the mother-infant dyad / Ellen Dissanayake
In search of texture / Koen DePryck
III. Sources
Literature of early "scientific" and "evolution " aesthetics / Nancy E. Aiken
Selectionist studies of the arts : an annotated bibliography / Brett Cooke and Nancy E. Aiken.