01.13.06
While you’re at it, throw in the evolution of art
Darwinism has produced so much shoddy thinking you’d think people would finally snap out of it. Typical nonsense here. Since the basic idea is to claim to explain everything there is no extra cost in claiming art too.
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.
The usefulness of the arts for survival is demonstrated by the universal human tendency to reconstruct reality in the imagination.