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ESTETYKA EWOLUCYJNA: SZTUKA JAKO ADAPTACJA W UJĘCIU MIĘDZYKULTUROWYM [PDF]

open access: yesThe Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2011
When studying various aspects of art and aesthetic tastes, contemporary evolutionists have no doubt that art is part of human nature, we have it in the brain and in the genes, as we might say today.
Jerzy Luty
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The Dynamics‐of‐Value‐in‐Consumption of Recycled Textile Materials

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate how the perceived value of recycled textile materials evolves across the consumption cycle, a key issue for recycling‐based strategies seeking to close the loop in the fashion industry. We employ a qualitative design combining an exploratory study and a longitudinal study with three interview waves, in which participants ...
Edith de Lamballerie, Valérie Guillard
wiley   +1 more source

Consumers Behavior and Awareness on Packaging Waste Management for Circular Economy: Theoretical vs. Empirical Analysis

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transition of consumption models towards a circular economy is fundamental, particularly in the food packaging sector, which generates a high proportion of waste. In this context, consumers play a fundamental role, especially at the domestic level through separate waste collection, to limit the use of virgin materials and facilitate the reuse ...
Maria Vittoria Rizzo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Science Lead Us to a Definition of Art?

open access: yesAisthesis, 2013
For approximately two thousand years, human thinkers have been attempting to define a  behaviour, referred to as art, that humans have been practicing for tens of thousands of  years.  Defining this term has proved to be so difficult that Munro (1949: 5)
Kathryn Coe
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Temporal Filling and Facial Lifting: Rethinking Expectations

open access: yesClinical Anatomy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Temporal lifting using injectable fillers has gained considerable attention in facial esthetics, based on the anatomical principle that strategic volumization can produce lifting effects through mechanical transmission of forces. However, there is a significant gap between anatomical plausibility and clinical evidence.
Marcelo Germani
wiley   +1 more source

Light Has Been Thrown (on Human Origins): a Brief History of Palaeoanthropology, with Notes on the "Punctuated" Origin of Homo Sapiens

open access: yesAisthesis, 2013
“Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history”: this was the single line that Charles Darwin devoted to human evolution in the Origin of Species (1859).
Giorgio Manzi, Fabio Di Vincenzo
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Tastes of the Parents: epigenetics and its role in evolutionary aesthetics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Evolutionary Aesthetics is a bourgeoning and thriving sub-field of Aesthetics, the main aim of which is “the importation of aesthetics into natural sciences, and especially its integration into the heuristic of Darwin’s evolutionary theory.” Scholars ...
Portera, M., MANDRIOLI, Mauro
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Of Darwin and Other Demons: the Evolutionary Turn in Aesthetics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Evolutionary aesthetics attempts to explain the human ability to perceive objects, conspecif ics and the surrounding environment in an a es thetic manner - i.e.
Seghers, Eveline, Eveline Seghers
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Charring Behaviour of Mass Timber: A Comparison of Thin Intumescent Coatings and Plasterboard

open access: yesFire and Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study compares the charring behaviour of mass timber under varied heating conditions when protected by either different thin intumescent coating types or fire‐rated plasterboard layers. Bench‐scale fire experiments were conducted using the Heat‐Transfer Rate Inducing System (H‐TRIS).
Stavros Spyridakis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

«Evo-Devo meets the mind». La questione dell’esperienza estetica e l’evoluzionismo contemporaneo, dall’ipotesi degli adattamenti modulari all'interpretazione sistemica dell’omologia

open access: yesRivista di Estetica, 2013
Is it achievable to read aesthetic experience as a modular adaptation, and what would be its implication on the image of man, on aesthetics and on evolutionary theory itself?
Salvatore Tedesco
doaj   +1 more source

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