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MARSHALL, Ian, 2013. Stalking the Gaps: The Biopoetics of Haiku. Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal. 2013. Vol. 46, no. 4, p. 91–107. jstor Examined through the lens of evolutionary literary criticism, or “biopoetics,” haiku exemplifies several evocritical ideas about the adaptive functions of art. It is an exercise in “making special,” or marking significant rituals, a means of promoting social bonding, and a kind of cognitive play that exercises our abilities in symbolic thought.

Situated ary literary criticism, or "evocriticism," or "literary Darwinism," or "biopoetics" (the terms are roughly synonymous, all referring to the application of evolutionary psychology to literary analysis) seeks to explain how literature may arise from and reinforce adaptive traits of the human mind.