Eric Gans
![Eric Gans at the Tokyo 2012 Generative Anthropology Society & Conference](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Egtokyo1_%281%29.jpg)
Gans claims that GA serves as a better foundation for the human sciences than the alternatives of (a) the natural sciences and (b) religion as it: * (a) actually explains the origin of language unlike the natural sciences, which, by "explaining" it in terms of human language gradually emerging from non-human animal sign systems—ultimately in an attempt to ignore the uniqueness of human language—do not actually explain it at all; and * (b) nevertheless remains consistent with the natural sciences unlike religion, which, despite actually explaining the origin of language, makes recourse to the supernatural in its explanations.
Gans edits ''Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology'', an academic journal devoted to GA. He also publishes the ''Chronicles of Love and Resentment'', a weblog dedicated to his reflections on a range of topics including popular culture, film, contemporary politics, philosophy and religion.
Gans has taught and published on 19th century literature, literary theory and film in the UCLA Department of French and Francophone studies. Provided by Wikipedia