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Further, diligent novel-reading is hardly a fixed trait in the human species.
Defensive Evolutionary Biologist goes ape on James Wood 2009
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Further, diligent novel-reading is hardly a fixed trait in the human species.
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Crain further wonders whether "the recent decline in novel-reading in America hasn't got something to do with the country's new tolerance for torture and lack of concern about human rights."
Saying Something 2010
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No respectable evolutionist would bother with the question, “What was the adaptive value of ‘novel-reading’ genes?”
Defensive Evolutionary Biologist goes ape on James Wood 2009
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Thus one might infer that his concern for the decline in novel-reading is also an accompanying lament for the passing of the novel in its realist/character-centered phase (at least characters who are relatively unproblematic in their psychological make-up, who give us desired access to their "inner feelings.")
Saying Something 2010
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“This quip is not dishonest: though I have several friends who have combined novel-reading with motherhood very successfully, in my own head I hold a convoluted equation, one based on the approximate number of hours I have left to live versus the number of good books I have left to read, and it is very anxiety-inducing.”
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I also had a bunch of research I have to do, so the novel-reading started up slowly.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » April 2010 Recommended Reading List 2010
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I also had a bunch of research I have to do, so the novel-reading started up slowly.
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I also had a bunch of research I have to do, so the novel-reading started up slowly.
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No respectable evolutionist would bother with the question, “What was the adaptive value of ‘novel-reading’ genes?”
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