Aesthetics and Evolution
Starting from the assumption that art, being a pervasive human behaviour across time and space, must have an evolutionary adaptive purpose, the Author claims in this paper that art making has evolved as a behaviour that serves to bind individuals together into cooperative groups. In more detail, t...
Main Author: | Nancy Aiken |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2013-12-01
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Series: | Aisthesis |
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Online Access: | http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/13769 |
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