How did the arts originate? The group demarcation and the scientific account

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Why did human beings first begin making art? In this paper, I present two accounts of its origins, one of which connects the arts to the desire for group demarcation and another to scientific impulses

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Terence Rajivan Edward
University of Manchester (PhD)

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