Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Aesthetics, Fiction and the Arts.

Deals with the evolutionary theory of aesthetics, fiction, and arts. Factors attributed to the evolution; Function of the scope syntax and the machinery for decoupling representations in the human mind; Reason behind a concept that art is universal.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Substance: A Review of Theory & Literary Criticism Vol. 30; no. 1/2; pp. 6 - 28
Main Authors: Tooby, John, Cosmides, Leda
Format: Article
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2001
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