The Evolutionary Advantages of Art

I'm featured on The Art Assignment!! Watch and sub here:    • Vanessa Hill of BrainCraft | The Art Assig...   I sit down with The Art Assignment host Sarah Urist Green to chat about science, art and evolution. The evolutionary pathway that led us to be the apex predator on this planet also resulted in some pretty cool skills. SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! http://ow.ly/rt5IE BrainCraft is created, written and hosted by Vanessa Hill (@nessyhill) and brought to you by PBS Digital Studios. Talking psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do. My Twitter   / nessyhill   | Instagram   / nessyhill   Produced and Edited by Vanessa Hill Research and Writing by Teagan Wall Sound design by Joel Werner http://joelwerner.com A big thank you to Anna Rothschild for filming. FOOTAGE Peacock spider via Peacock Spider Man:    • Peacock Spider 16 (Maratus splendens)   Blue-footed booby via Nature on PBS:    • Blue-Footed Booby Bird Mating Dance | Love...   REFERENCES Di Dio, C., Macaluso, E., & Rizzolatti, G. (2007). The golden beauty: brain response to classical and renaissance sculptures. PloS one, 2(11), e1201. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Cinzia, D. D., & Vittorio, G. (2009). Neuroaesthetics: a review. Current opinion in neurobiology, 19(6), 682-687. https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... Co-evolution of language and consciousness: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10... Using drums to communicate: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_in... Great PBS article on using musical training to boost memory: http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/... Students remember words better with music than with spoken word/prose: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/87... Kirkham, E. (2014). How does the brain process rhythm?. eLife, 3, e02658. https://elifesciences.org/content/3/e... IMAGES (there's a lot of them!) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_hi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Re... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Re... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ya... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ab... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Br... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Th... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/res... https://www.flickr.com/photos/7527891... http://www.saatchigallery.com/aipe/im... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fr... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Baer... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putamen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ro...