What is it about?
The arts are regarded as a by-product of a brain that evolved for reasons other than to make art. The arts are deemed to reactivate the evolutionary derived regions through cultural innovations.
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This paper seeks to contradict a trend that claims the arts derive from biological adaptations by showing that they are more of a cultural phenomenon.
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This page is a summary of: The Evolutionary Significance of the Arts: Exploring the By-product Hypothesis in the Context of Ritual, Precursors, and Cultural Evolution, Biological Theory, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s13752-014-0182-y.
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