Art and Adaptation presents a comprehensive survey and discussion of the dominant ideas by leading thinkers about why we make art. Approaches that examine the evolution of art behavior embrace natural selection, sexual selection, social selection, and cognition. Art behavior is intimately entwined in our evolution and prehistory and helped solve problems and issues related to kin or group identification, attracting mates, and cultural transmission. The book is indexed and has a full bibliography. "Why do we make art? In this short volume, Gregory F. Tague seeks to understand how material culture and artistic behaviors adapt over time. He examines different, often conflicting, evolutionary perspectives on natural and social selection in relation to cognition." Art in America (December 2015, pg. 44) This publication is a reissue of the 2015 book incorporating some minor changes to the text and index; the bibliography has been expanded. Gregory F. Tague, Ph.D. (1998 NYU) has authored or edited books on literary subjects, moral sensations and consciousness, evolution and human culture, art and adaptation, great ape personhood, the cultural ecology of food, and political philosophy regarding forest plants and wildlife. Broadly speaking, Tague's current interests focus on environmental and animal ethics.