The Biological Roots of Aesthetics and Art:

Evolutionary Psychology

Bernd Heinrich¹ 

关键词: aesthetics;    biological roots;    behavior;    art;    animals;   

DOI  :  10.1177/147470491301100316

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Animals' choice behavior is driven by motivation that is attributable to both innate urges and from positive and negative reinforcements. Using a comparative approach as well as experimental evidence, I explore how the first involves fitness-enhancing benefits from aesthetics that are derived from ancestral choices via natural selection. Innate urges and aesthetics help guide animals to produce appropriate positive and negative choices that are species-specific. Choices of food, habitat and mates or associates are considered. I propose that art is not a uniquely human product, but a representation or an extension of the maker, as are the ornaments, displays, and songs of a bird.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC