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Episode 43 | A Scientific Theory of the Art World

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

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Is It Anthropomorphism?

adaptationist view is that animals are making choices based on what they like, ylit they don't like. The idea never really appealed to me until i was watching a bird for daysn south america. It's a way of taking the irrational aspect fof sex, of mating and of attractionnd bringing it back on the ranch. And instead of kind of sweeping it off to the side, putting it the centre of our science, right? 'It turns out this is the original concept in which made choice as an evolutionary mechanism was proposed by darwin back in 18 71'

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