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• “Evolution and Literary Theory,” Human Nature 6 (1995): 119-34.

• “Poststructuralism, Cultural Constructivism, and Evolutionary Biology,” Symploke 4 (1996): 203-219.

• “Steven Pinker’s Cheesecake for the Mind,” Philosophy and Literature 22 (1998): 478-85.

• “Literary Study and Evolutionary Theory: A Review Essay,” Human Nature 8 (1998): 273-92.

•  Review of three books: John Bowlby’s Charles Darwin: A New Life, Adrian Desmond’s and James Moore’s Darwin, and Janet Browne’s Charles Darwin: Voyaging, in TLS (Times Literary Supplement), no. 4951 (February 20, 1998): 8-9.

• Review of John Ellis’s Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities, in TLS (Times Literary Supplement), no. 4967 (June 12, 1998): 27.

• “’Theory,’ Anti-Theory, and Empirical Criticism,” in Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts, ed. Brett Cooke and Frederick Turner (Lexington, KY: ICUS, 1999): 139-54.

• “Wilson’s Consilience and Literary Study,” Philosophy and Literature 23 (1999): 393-413.

• “The Deep Structure of Literary Representations,” Evolution and Human Behavior 20 (1999): 159-73.

• “Universalien in der Literaturwissenschaft” (“Universals in Literary Study”), in Universalien und Konstruktivismus, ed. Peter M. Hejl (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2001): 235-56. (Reprinted, in English, as “Universals in Literary Study,” in Literary Darwinism)

•  “Human Universals and Literary Meaning: A Sociobiological Critique of Pride and Prejudice, Villette, O Pioneers!, Anna of the Five Towns, and Tess of the d’Urbervilles,” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 2 (2001): 9-27.

• “The Ecology of Victorian Fiction,” Philosophy and Literature 25 (2001): 295-313.

• “Organism, Environment, and Literary Representation,” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 9 (2002): 27-45.
  

• “Adaptationist Literary Study: An Emerging Research Program,” Style 36 (2003): 596-617.

•  “Adaptationist Criteria of Literary Value: Assessing Kurten’s Dance of the Tiger, Auel’s The Clan of the Cave Bear, and Golding’s The Inheritors (not previously published before appearing in Literary Darwinism).

• “Human Nature and Literary Meaning: A Theoretical Model Illustrated with a Critique of Pride and Prejudice,” (not previously published before appearing in Literary Darwinism),.also published in Literature and the Human Animal, ed. Jonathan Gottschall and D. S. Wilson (Evanston, IL: Northwestern, 2005): 76-106. 

• “Modern Darwinism and the Pseudo-Revolutions of Stephen Jay Gould,” (not previously published before appearing in Literary Darwinism).

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