Paleomythologies: The Spiritual Persuasion of Evolution

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A current rise in so-called “caveman” diets, books, exercise regimes and other trends demonstrates a cultural attempt to reclaim idealized prehistoric conditions for the modern human. In a rhetorical analysis of texts from this modern paleo culture, we identify what we call a “paleomyth” and illustrate how such lifestyle trends not only offer truncated understandings of evolutionary science, but more importantly how they offer a mythological narrative for paleo believers.

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paleo, evolution, myth

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Schneider-Bateman, G., (2018) “Paleomythologies: The Spiritual Persuasion of Evolution”, POROI 14(1): 2, 1-28. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1262

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Copyright © 2018 Gregory Schneider-Bateman, Julie A. Homchick Crowe
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Gregory Schneider-Bateman (University of Wisconsin - Stout)

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