To Ellen Dissanayake, the Arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully over generations.
To ensure that mothers find their demanding babies worth caring for, huma.
It all begins with the human trait of birthing immature and helpless infants.
In Art and Intimacy she argues for the joint evolutionary origin of art and intimacy, what we commonly call love.
To Ellen Dissanayake, the Arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully over generations