Darwin, Art and Aesthetics: Creating or Enjoying What Is Beautiful Gives an Advantage From the Point of View of Evolution?

[An article by The Conversation written by Jacques Morizot - Honorary Professor of Aesthetics, Aix-Marseille University (AMU)] The art is part of the life of human beings, from our Hominines ancestors to our Homo sapiens contemporaries. Its place is central in all human societies, on all continents. History, philosophical aesthetics, ethnology, sociology or psychology try to understand its scope.