What art is and what art does: An overview of contemporary evolutionary hypotheses

Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 1-14

  Dissanayake, Ellen ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315224657-1     Document Type: Chapter

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