The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
Jan 08, 2009
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Episode description
Combining two fascinating and contentious disciplines -- art and evolutionary science -- a philosopher, professor and founder/editor of the popular Arts & Letter Daily, argues that human tastes in art are shaped by Darwinian selection.
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