1) Which are the biopsychological mechanisms leading to artistic behaviour (“proximate” causes)?

2) Which ecological and sociopolitical environments favour the production and survival of art?

3) In which way can artistic behaviour contribute to individual reproductive success (“ultimate” causes)?

4) Can evolutionary principles of perception, emotion, thought and behaviour be formulated which are functionally relevant for all different modes of artistic expression or did the latter come about as separate sets of adaptation?

5) In which way does art, e.g. in the form of styles, define particular cultural groups, establish cultural identity and facilitate cultural exchange?

6) In which way is artistic production dependent on and guided by universal human brain processing which will co-determine how receivers of specific art messages react?