Sunday, February 17, 2019

Prum's "The Evolution of Beauty"

The title of this article is click-bait-y, but once you get into the article it's a really interesting discussion of of Prum's "Evolution of Beauty" book. Within the framework of natural selection, how do beauty and the aesthetic sense function? (I'm learning anew about this subject and find it so fascinating.)

I was just studying a review of the book yesterday, which makes the point discussed in the paragraph that begins "Despite his recent Pulitzer nomination..." Here is that article.



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