ABSTRACT
Is the human capacity to make and appreciate art an evolved trait? In other words: Does it have a genetic basis that emerged by evolution? Is it an adaptation to the human natural or social environment? These are the questions to be surveyed in this chapter. I will review how art is universal across human cultures, and argue that this constitutes a case for evolution. I shall then inquire into how art could have evolved. This inquiry is shaped by how one conceives of art.
