The artful species aesthetics, art, and evolution

Stephen Davies explores the idea that art, and our aesthetic sensibilities more generally, should be understood as an element in human evolution. He asks: Do animals have aesthetics? Do our aesthetic preferences have prehistoric roots? Is art universal? What is the biological role of aesthetic and a...

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Main Author: Davies, Stephen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2013, 2013
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