Costly signalling, the arts, archaeology and human behaviour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3919615 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Hodgson (0000-0003-1509-3732, University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 446-465 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.2017.1281757 |
| OpenAlex | W2589890046 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 80 |
The role of the arts has become crucial to understanding the origins of ‘modern human behaviour’ but is highly controversial as it is not clear why the arts evolved and persisted. I argue that the arts evolved as a by-product of biological traits and expressions of gene culture co-evolution that facilitated group cohesion through costly signalling that led to increasing but, ultimately, unsustainable population densities. This paper therefore strives to defend the concept of costly signalling by demonstrating that the arts, by way of the extended phenotype, served as a device that initially enhanced group cohesion but which could also potentially lead to the demise of a community
Art · Biology · Cohesion (chemistry · Demise · Group cohesiveness · Political science · Population · Signalling · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Demography · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · History · Language and cultural evolution · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |