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art vs aesthetic |
art - conscious use of skill and creative imagination aesthetic - characterized by a heightened sense of beauty |
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Darwin and Wallce Dissagreement |
Darwin - natural selection alone can't explain all the flamboyant traits of animmals. suggests female mate choice Sexually selected traits - PROOF that females have aesthetic senes Wallace disagrees - nonhuman females can not be endowed with a sense of aesthetics. God gives humans aesthetic sense Animals distinguish on logic NOT beauty |
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Bower Birds and art? |
17 species some are bowers some gardeners they decorate their homes like crazy culturally transmitted - different species have different cultures males get more complex bowers as they grow older MORE complex bowers LESS complex body art IS IT ART? |
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Geoffrey Miller cultural courtship |
Art and music are means for cultural courtship, show differences, self-expressive, time and energy culture NOT side effect of big brain BUT why it's selected BIG brain didn't make tools more complex BUT mating rituals more complex |
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Courtship predictions |
1. Strong sexxual dimorphism 2. increase at puberty, peak at young adulthood, decline over adult life Men are competitive Women are competitive but not as much, benefit from pickiness |
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Role of Women |
females wil lbe more expressive when they don't have to be caregivers |
