Here are links to three reviews of the

Dutton book, kindly flicked on by David Boyce.

One of the things I'm curious about is why should a so-called 'artistic' sensibility be more successful in attracting fertile mates than say a scientist who does research with experiments in their hunt for knowledge, or a mystic or religious scholar searching for spiritual truth? As a skill, why would the 'artistic' be so attractive?

Here are those links...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html?_r=1&ref=books
http://www.city-journal.org:80/2009/bc0130jp.html
http://www.newscientist.com:80/article/mg20126937.000-review-the-art-instinct-by-denis-dutton.html

Paste them into your search engine if you are interested.(Sorry, I can't highlight them.)