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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nancy Aiken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2013-12-01
Series:Aisthesis
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Online Access:http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/13769
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