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Darwinian Arts and Beauty

Darwinian Arts and Beauty. Amanda Limongi. Universal Signatures . Expertise Non-utilitarian Pleasure Style Criticism Imitation Special Focus Imagination. Dutton, 2000. Art as an Adaptation. Cross-Cultural Existence Ancestry Young Children Sources of Pleasure Costly.

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Darwinian Arts and Beauty

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  1. Darwinian Arts and Beauty Amanda Limongi

  2. Universal Signatures • Expertise • Non-utilitarian Pleasure • Style • Criticism • Imitation • Special Focus • Imagination Dutton, 2000

  3. Art as an Adaptation • Cross-Cultural Existence • Ancestry • Young Children • Sources of Pleasure • Costly

  4. Art’s Adaptive Function? • Cognition • Propaganda • Sexual Display • Sociality • Stress Reduction/Coping

  5. Art & Natural Selection • Sociality • Improvement of Skills • Appreciation of Skills

  6. Art & Sexual Selection • Display Hypothesis • Costly Signaling • Status and Hierarchy • “Artistic Eye”

  7. Pinker: Art as an Adaptive By-Product • Hunger for Status • Aesthetic Pleasure • Ability to Design Artifacts

  8. Special Case: Fiction • “To instruct and to delight” • Four main themes: • Love • Sex • Personal Threat • Threat to Kin

  9. Evolved Aesthetics • Komar and Melamid – “America’s Most Wanted”

  10. Evolved Aesthetics Denmark Ukraine Portugal Kenya Iceland

  11. Sources

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