Evolutionary aesthetics is the attempt to understand the aesthetic judgement of human beings and their spontaneous distinction between "beauty" and "ugliness" as a biologically adapted ability to make important decisions in life. The hypothesis is - both in the area of "natural beauty" and in sexuality, with regard to landscape preferences, but also in the area of "artificial beauty" (i.e. in art and design) - that beauty opens up fitness opportunities, while ugliness holds fitness risks. In this book, this adaptive view of aesthetics is developed theoretically, presented on the basis of numerous examples, and its consequences for evolutionary anthropology are illuminated.
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Humans tend to judge and sort parts of their social and nonsocial environment permanently into a few basic categories: those parts they like and those parts they do not. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evolved perceptual biases, symmetric men, multiple fitness model, ancestral cues, evolutionary aesthetics, facial masculinity, grooming features, male physical attractiveness, high genetic quality, human psychological adaptations, attractiveness judgments, human mate choice, prettiest tree, hormone markers, fluctuating asymmetry, evolutionary persistence, phenotypic quality, eyespot patterns, pathogen prevalence, symmetrical men, human evolutionary history, facial attractiveness, human sperm competition, landscape preferences, aesthetic valuation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Soc Lond Ser, Oxford University Press, Anim Behav, Maynard Smith, Ethol Sociobiol, Environ Behav, Personality Social Psychol, Cambridge University Press, Evol Human Behav, Theor Biol, Trends Ecol Evol, University of Chicago Press, Psychol Sci, Academic Press, Curr Anthropol, Human Evol, Human Nat, Lawrence Erlbaum, Behav Ecol, Comp Psychol, Plenum Press, Psychol Rev, South Africa, United States New!
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Humans tend to judge and sort parts of their social and nonsocial environment permanently into a few basic categories: those parts they like and those parts they do not. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evolved perceptual biases, symmetric men, multiple fitness model, ancestral cues, evolutionary aesthetics, facial masculinity, grooming features, male physical attractiveness, high genetic quality, human psychological adaptations, attractiveness judgments, human mate choice, prettiest tree, hormone markers, fluctuating asymmetry, evolutionary persistence, phenotypic quality, eyespot patterns, pathogen prevalence, symmetrical men, human evolutionary history, facial attractiveness, human sperm competition, landscape preferences, aesthetic valuation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Soc Lond Ser, Oxford University Press, Anim Behav, Maynard Smith, Ethol Sociobiol, Environ Behav, Personality Social Psychol, Cambridge University Press, Evol Human Behav, Theor Biol, Trends Ecol Evol, University of Chicago Press, Psychol Sci, Academic Press, Curr Anthropol, Human Evol, Human Nat, Lawrence Erlbaum, Behav Ecol, Comp Psychol, Plenum Press, Psychol Rev, South Africa, United States New!
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