Hardwired to seek beauty

Denis Dutton, who teaches the philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and edits Arts and Letters Daily, is writing a book on Darwinian aesthetics.

In Hardwired to seek beauty he makes an interesting aside:

It's odd that the very academics who express outrage that religious conservatives want to keep Darwin out of high school biology classes in the US are themselves unwilling to admit Darwin into their own seminars.