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- How The Arts Evolved
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As much as fighting wild animals or finding suitable environments our ancient ancestors faced social forces and family conflicts that became a part of evolved life. Both of these force fields acting in concert, eventually produced the intensely social, robust, love making, murderous, convivial, organizing, technology using, show off, squabbling, game playing, friendly, status seeking, upright walking, lying, omnivorous, knowledge seeking, arguing, clubbing, language using, conspicuously wasteful, versatile species of primate that we became… and along the way in developing all this, the arts were born.
Denis Dutton is a professor of ‘Philosophy of Art’ at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. I spoke with Denis Dutton from his home in Christchurch, New Zealand on July 17th, 2009 and began our conversation by asking him to further explain the birth of the arts
The books Denis Dutton recommends are ‘Before The Dawn: Recovering The Lost History Of Our Ancestors’ by Nicholas Wade and ‘The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution’ by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending. You can listen to a radio curious interview with Gregory Cochran by visiting the 2009 Radio Curious archives on our website www.radiocurious.org
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As much as fighting wild animals or finding suitable environments our ancient ancestors faced social forces and family conflicts that became a part of evolved life. Both of these force fields acting in concert, eventually produced the intensely social, robust, love making, murderous, convivial, organizing, technology using, show off, squabbling, game playing, friendly, status seeking, upright walking, lying, omnivorous, knowledge seeking, arguing, clubbing, language using, conspicuously wasteful, versatile species of primate that we became… and along the way in developing all this, the arts were born.
Denis Dutton is a professor of ‘Philosophy of Art’ at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. I spoke with Denis Dutton from his home in Christchurch, New Zealand on July 17th, 2009 and began our conversation by asking him to further explain the birth of the arts
The books Denis Dutton recommends are ‘Before The Dawn: Recovering The Lost History Of Our Ancestors’ by Nicholas Wade and ‘The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution’ by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending. You can listen to a radio curious interview with Gregory Cochran by visiting the 2009 Radio Curious archives on our website www.radiocurious.org
