Text in the Natural World
Gregorio, Laurence A.![Text in the Natural World](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/238/23873687/CHSBZCOP0323873687.jpg)
The study of literature has expanded to include an evolutionary perspective. Its premise is that the literary text and literature as an overarching institution came into existence as a product of the same evolutionary process that gave rise to the human species. In this view, literature is an evolutionary adaptation that functions as any other adaptation does, as a means of enhancing survivability and also promoting benefits for the individual...