Adaptive Significance of Ethics and Aesthetics
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CARTA-Inspired Publication
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Authors: Ayala, FJ
Year of Publication: 2017
Book Title: On Human Nature: Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion
Chapter: 35
Pagination: 601–623
Publisher: Academic Press
Publication Language: eng
Keywords: Aesthetic appreciation; Aesthetics; Altamira; Ethics; Exaptation; Free will; Lascaux; Magdalenian culture; Moral behavior versus moral norms; Oldowan culture; Rationality
Abstract:
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-420190-3.00035-1
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