Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-205) and index.
Contents:
The ancestress hypothesis and visual art: an overview -- Visual art techniques and veneration of the dead -- Changing styles of visual art -- The definition of visual art: the first step of the scientific method -- Underpinnings of the ancestress hypothesis -- Males as ancestors -- Visual art theory: ancestress strategy or sexual strategy -- Testing the ancestress hypothesis -- Modern Darwinian theory -- Reconciliation: the problem of definition.
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