Assertion: literature | /r/CapableOf | play part
Facets:
value: in the struggle for natural selection
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: For example, Ugo Angelo Canello argued that literature was the history of the human psyche, and as such, played a part in the struggle for natural selection, while Francesco de Sanctis argued that Emile Zola "brought the concepts of natural selection, struggle for existence, adaptation and environment to bear in his novels".