This looks intriguing. The Art Instinct Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution Denis Dutton (2009) Introduction
 1: Landscape and Longing
 2: Art and Human Nature
 3: What Is Art? 4: "But They Don't Have Our Concept of Art"
 5: Art and Natural Selection
 6: The Uses of Fiction
 7: Art and Human Self-Domestication
 8: Intention, Forgery, Dada: Three Aesthetic Problems
 9: The Contingency of Aesthetic Values
 10: Greatness in the Arts This book will be the topic of an Author-Meets-Critics session o