ART & ORGANISM
DEEP ETHOLOGY – EVOLUTION
analogy and homology
Speaking of traits that share a common ancetor (= homologous), How deep are their connections and how does their shared ancestry inform your understanding of their causes and consequences ?
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The shared past of a trait, no matter how superficially dissimilar, or the current similarities of a trait, even when there is no shared evolutionary past, can tell us much about the developmental processes, environments to which they have accommodated over their deep history. It also suggests as yet unsuspected physiological substrate.
TOPICS
EVOLUTION (like DEVELOPMENT) is about change in TRAITS
we need a sense of the hierarchy of genes and memes, extent of diversity and of genetic polymorphism
COMPETITION and COOPERATION Converging or Alternative mechanisms
On the Origin of Cooperation COMPETITION and COOPERATION in CULTURE ADAPTATION and FITNESS NATURAL SELECTION
BRICOLAGE
THE PROBLEM OF ALTRUISM
CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT[1] RITUALIZATION[2].
From Animal Signals to Art WORDS and BIAS
PALEOLITHIC ART RESOURCES
in A&O we position our inquiry by treating the CREATION of art, its EXPRESSION (sometimes termed “realization”), and its RECEPTION by a viewer, as TRAITS with causes and consequences subject to change in evolutionary and developmental time.
The INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY of BEHAVIOR involves the coordinated activities of four broad areas (as biologists study them): DEVELOPMENT, ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, and PHYSIOLOGY and how they are brought to bear on BEHAVIOR (“DEEP ETHOLOGY”)