| Main Entry: | Literary Darwinism |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | a school of literary criticism in search of innate patterns of human behavior; a manner of looking at a literary text keeping in mind that humans behave in certain universal ways |
| Example: | Literary Darwinists look at child bearing and rearing, efforts to acquire resources (money, property, influence) and competition and cooperation within families and communities. |