The ancestress hypothesis
Subtitle: visual art as adaptation
By: Kathryn Coe.
Series: The Rutgers series in human evolution
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Art and anthropology; Art and society; Art, Primitive; Motherhood -- History; Social evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: The ancestress hypothesis and visual art: an overview; title: Visual art techniques and veneration of the dead; title: Changing styles of visual art; title: The definition of visual art: the first step of the scientific method; title: Underpinnings of the ancestress hypothesis; title: Males as ancestors; title: Visual art theory: ancestress strategy or sexual strategy; title: Testing the ancestress hypothesis; title: Modern Darwinian theory; title: Reconciliation: the problem of definition.