literary darwinism?

there's a provocative article in today's NY TIMES called 'the literary darwinists.' adherents to this [admittedly very small] school of literary interpretation -- which is a subset of the [ever-so-slightly larger] field of so-called 'biopoetics' -- claim to take a biological, even a darwinian, approach to the reading and evaluation of literary works. [they see this as, among other things, a way of uniting science and the humanities.] have a look at the essay and see what you think about all this.