Art and Adaptation - Paperback

by Gregory F. Tague (Author)

Art and Adaptation presents a comprehensive survey and discussion of the dominant ideas by leading thinkers about why we make art. Approaches that examine the evolution of art behavior embrace natural selection, sexual selection, social selection, and cognition. Art behavior is intimately entwined in our evolution and prehistory and helped solve problems and issues related to kin or group identification, attracting mates, and cultural transmission. The book is indexed and has a full bibliography.

Author Biography

The author, Gregory F. Tague, holds an English Ph.D. from N.Y.U. and is a professor at St. Francis College. His publishing credits in evolutionary studies include Making Mind: Moral Sense and Consciousness (Rodopi, 2014) and Evolution and Human Culture (Brill, forthcoming). Founder and senior developer of The Evolutionary Studies Collaborative at St. Francis College, he is also editor of the ASEBL Journal, which investigates the convergence of ethics, evolution, and the arts.