If we retrospectively contemplate the Darwin–Wallace controversy over sexual selection, we can understand better what was at stake. In a sense, both authors were right and wrong. Wallace was right to emphasize the adaptive importance of a number of phenomena that Darwin attributed to sexual select...
CB: It’s just not. I think we can retrospectively make a narrative about somebody’s creative life, but it never happens in that linear way. And because the film goes inside the maelstrom of the creative process, people reduce that to a simple, moralistic, judgmental narrative. ...