Denis Dutton is a philosophy professor and the editor of Arts & Letters Daily. In his book The Art Instinct, he suggests that humans are hard-wired to seek beauty.
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I find the book is confused because he conflates all forms of “artistic achievement” at least in part because he is a professor of literature and there are problems with making that part of an evo-psych argument.
Brave attempt though.
I think Nabokov would have loved this book. However with beauty being relative to culture and other non-scientific factors this argument would be a tough sell to a scientist.