Are human aesthetic preferences universal, innate and genetically encoded or, on the contrary, are they contingent and variable – mere cultural traits – emerging as a consequence of exposure to cultural models? This book chapter aims at addressing these and similar questions, relying on the most recent research results in evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, cultural evolution, contemporary aesthetics.
Aesthetic Preferences: An Evolutionary Approach / Mariagrazia Portera; Lorenzo Bartalesi. - STAMPA. - (2016), pp. 375-388.
Aesthetic Preferences: An Evolutionary Approach
Mariagrazia Portera;Lorenzo Bartalesi
2016
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Are human aesthetic preferences universal, innate and genetically encoded or, on the contrary, are they contingent and variable – mere cultural traits – emerging as a consequence of exposure to cultural models? This book chapter aims at addressing these and similar questions, relying on the most recent research results in evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, cultural evolution, contemporary aesthetics.File in questo prodotto:
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