From the Sociobiology and the problems and prospects (Ellen Dissanayake). - The promise of a biothematics (Brett Cooke). - The sociobiology of beauty (Frederick Turner). - Vegetable, animal, the perils and powers of transgressing sociobiologicalbounderies in narrative (Eric S. Rabkin). - How art arouses emotion (Nancy E. Aiken). - The biology of Dostoevsky's Crime and cultural text as adaptive mechanism (Gary Cox).