The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are
connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic …

Although fluency theory predominates psychological research on human aesthetics, its most
severe limitation may be to explain why art that challenges or even violates easy processing …

Most art is made by people with a well‐developed concept of art and who are familiar with its
forms and genres as well as with the informal institutions of its presentation and reception …

There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them
to exist in. But this is not the end of the story. Drawings and paintings are made, and in their …

Non-figurative prehistoric art is comparatively common yet challenging to decode and hence
to understand. At the heart of the difficulty of assessing the presence of semiotic structure in …

This article considers the imago Dei from the perspective of paleoanthropology. We identify
structural, functional, and relational elements of the imago Dei that emerged mosaically …

Seit wann gibt es den aufrechten Gang, und wie entstand das Wunder der Sprache? Wie
kamen Religion, Recht, Kunst, Geld, Musik oder Städtebau in die Welt? Wann begannen die …

In 2022, the National Museum of Australia launched an immersive virtual exhibition of
Australian Aboriginal art: Connection: Songlines from Australia's First Peoples, which was …

It has become common to explore connections between human evolution and aesthetic and
artistic behaviors against the background of a certain framework. The biological approach to …

Various objects and artifacts incorporate representations of faces, encompassing artworks
like portraits, as well as ethnographic or industrial artifacts such as masks or humanoid …