It is entirely in the Darwinian spirit that we respect other animals as the astonishing creations they are, with purposes precisely suited to their lives.
Denis Dutton, 2009.
Although there are animals that show something humans would call artistry, like the ornamented bower of the male bower bird of New Guinea, they do this for a single purpose (attracting a female in this case), but afterwards they “forget” about it—no interest in preservation, a following art fair or the development of an artistic culture.
Keywords: evolution, arts, science.
Reference
Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct. Beauty, Pleasure & Human Evolution. Bloomsbury Press, New York, 2009; page 9.
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