creators_name: Allott, Robin type: journalp datestamp: 2003-11-03 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:23 metadata_visibility: show title: THE PYTHAGOREAN PERSPECTIVE: The Arts and Sociobiology ispublished: pub subjects: bio-socio subjects: bio-evo full_text_status: public keywords: mathematics,visual arts, poetry, music synaesthesia, biology of the arts abstract: Literature, music, mathematics, art, are constituents of culture and each of them has its separate history. But each of them can also be seen as a manifestation of a human biological drive, a drive towards exploration, experimentation, the analysis of human perception. Culture is not something separate from human evolution but a part of a continuing human evolution, indeed the main form which human evolution has taken over the last few thousand years. 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