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Contemporary Hollywood films dealing with human evolution exhibit a dialectic: the anxiety about the nature of the superhuman, who is the result of the evolutionary process, whether voluntary or involuntary, and the ‘popular fantasy’ of what I shall be calling a ‘species cosmopolitanism’.
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Nayar, P.K. (2015). ‘Trust a Few, Fear the Rest’: The Anxiety and Fantasy of Human Evolution. In: Hauskeller, M., Philbeck, T.D., Carbonell, C.D. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137430328_38
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