The artful species
Subtitle: aesthetics, art, and evolution
By: Stephen Davies
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780199658541; 9780191633119; 9781283919166
Subjects: History; Aesthetics; Art; Philosophy; Kulturelle Evolution; Social evolution; Psychological aspects; Ästhetik; Human evolution; Kunst; Cultural Evolution
Description: Explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature reaching back hundreds of thousands of years to our humanoid ancestors. Examines human aesthetic interest in animals, decouples human beauty from mate selection, and weighs the arts as biological, social, or mixed adaptations.
Notes: Author is on the academic staff of Auckland University, New Zealand.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-279) and index.

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Table of contents: title: The aesthetic; title: The nature of art; title: The theory of evolution; title: How might the aesthetic, art, and evolution be related?; title: Humans' aesthetic appreciation of nonhuman animals; title: Landscape aesthetics; title: The aesthetics of human beauty; title: General theories of art as an adaptation and the origins of art; title: Art as a spandrel; title: Art as a technology; title: Arts as adaptations.