Assertion: literature | /r/HasProperty | adaptation
Facets:
value: notably
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: "Toward a Consilient Study of Literature," a review of The Literary Animal, Philosophy and Literature 31 (2007): 162-178.David Fishelov has argued that the attempt to link Darwinism to literary studies has failed "to produce compelling evidence to support some of its basic assumptions (notably that literature is an adaptation)" and has called on literary scholars to be more conceptually rigorous when they pursue "empirical research into different aspects of literary evolution.