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A new book by Professor of Theatre and Film Mark Pizzato was published earlier this year by Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC. Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain: The Evolution of Animal-Humans from Prehistoric Cave Art to Modern Movies <\/a><\/em>draws together the diverse disciplines of anthropology, neuroscience, psychology, aesthetics, and performance studies to examine the question, \u201cHow is our abiding interest in beast-people films like Twilight<\/em> and Dracula<\/em> rooted in mankind’s animal ancestry?\u201d<\/p>\n