The idea behind evolution fiction is to first strip all elements of the romance genre out of fiction about the prehistoric past. This is not to say that love, affection and attraction are removed from the genre, but in evolution fiction you won't find any blond haired blue eyed gods tramping around in bearskins with horse bones as clubs.
Evolution fiction deals with the drama of people's lives under great pressure. In such a setting a romance would be possible, but it will not adhere to the romance genre. In other words, there will be no blond male models on the book cover, wrapped in skins.
Evolution Fiction shares more with a graphic novel like The Watchmen. The story lines are gritty, full of violence and fear, but are often resolved in the end, and if not are continued into the next volume. In cinema evolution fiction would be like Apocalypto. In novels, the genre is like Lord of the Flies, for its comment on society, or like the original Tarzan, about a feral child, or Blood Meridian though more comprehensible.
The genre is not an attempt to realign a genre but to create a new genre targeted at a younger, male audience. The audience loves the idea of the dark history of man but has nowhere to get it in ficiton at the moment as the period is fully covered by romance novelists.
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