The Peacock Fallacy: Art as a Veblenian Signal
The fact that world-over people seem inexplicably motivated to allocate time and effort to apparently useless cultural practices, like the arts, has led several evolutionary scholars to suggest that these might be costly Zahavian signals correlated with genetic fitness, such as the infamous peacock’...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021
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