[blam]

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Thanks to Shermy for the article.

[muawiyah]

"The Darwinian origin of art is a subject of much dispute. It's unlikely that the arts came about at one time or for one purpose: they evolved from overlapping interests based on survival and mate selection, and explore and make use of emotions experienced even by our pre-hominid ancestors.

This part is most subject to criticism. Just about all of us have a "part" of the gene-set that creates "art", and that enables us to appreciate it. Some have the whole thing and they create "art". It happened all at once sometime about 50,000 to 35,000 years ago ~ there was nothing piecemeal about it. The drawings and paintings preserved in the caves have no more primitive origin ~ it was all good from the very first day. It is demonstrable that there are no Darwinian "intermediate" forms or incremental steps when it comes to "art".

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam & Shermy.

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[RightWingAtheist]

Darwinian literary studies has has also been around for a while. Check out Evolution and Literary Theory and Literary Darwinism by Joseph Carroll.

[Lazamataz]

I'm hardwired to seek hot chicks.

I can't explain it.

It just is.