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The author presents hypotheses concerning evolutionary factors responsible for the evolvement of imagination and its adaptive functions. Pleistocene was pointed as the environment for evolutionary adaptability in which it was possible for imagination to evolve as a result of certain phenomena which occurred at that time and which were important for the evolution of man. These included: creation and...
The three hypotheses have been verified in the experiments presented in this paper: according to the first one, possessing the creative imagination increases human fitness; according to the second one - one condition to fulfill an adaptation function by imagination is possessing imagery which is adjusted to the situation (e.g. the reproductive imagination - the usual situation; the creative imagination...
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