CHARLES DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION CONTRIBUTED

Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution contributed to art

Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution contributed to art

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist,[I] eminent as a collector and geologist, who suggested and supplied technical clues that all species of life have developed over time from widespread ancestors through the method he called natural selection. The detail that evolution happens became acknowledged by the technical community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural assortment came to be broadly glimpsed as the prime interpretation of the method of evolution in the 1930s, and now types the cornerstone of up to date evolutionary theory. In changed pattern, Darwin's technical breakthrough continues the base of biological research, as it presents a unifying ordered interpretation for the diversity of life.

Artists have always learned from nature. A new generation of artists is adapting the very processes of life to create exciting new works. But art is more than the creation of objects. It is also a progression of ideas with a history and a correspondence to the larger culture. The goal of this chapter is to take a step back from the details of the technology and the consideration of specific works, and to view evolutionary art in the broader context of all art. This kind of multidisciplinary discussion requires one to be multilingual, and this chapter will use the language of scientists, humanists, artists, and philosophers. While doing so we will quickly visit complexity science, postmodernism in the arts, and the conflict between the cultures of the humanities and the sciences. Clearly evolutionary art is a type of generative art. The genetic information and competitive evolutionary process is an external system to which the artist cedes control. In some cases the artist retains tighter control by personally acting as the fitness function, and choosing in each round of breeding which individuals will reproduce, and which individuals will be removed from the gene pool. In other cases the artist will express his or her judgment as an abstraction in the form of an algorithmic fitness function, and will then allow the breeding cycle to run free. In what follows we will see that evolutionary art occupies a special position in the spectrum of generative art. While systems such as the economy and the weather are indeed complex, complexity scientists frequently cite examples from life itself as being the most complex known systems, and especially the most complex adaptive systems. Aesthetic fitness:

How sexual selection shaped artistic virtuosity as a fitness indicator

and aesthetic preferences as mate choice criteria

 

In Darwin's (1871) view, natural beauty arose through competition to attract a sexual partner. His process of sexual selection through mate choice - the struggle to reproduce, not to survive - drove the evolution of visual ornamentation and artistry, from flowers through bird plumage to human self-adornment. Moreover, Darwin saw animal and proto-human nervous systems as fully capable of aesthetic judgement, used largely in the service ...