Survival Of The Prettiest: The Science Of Beauty
ISBN:
9780316643719 (0316643718)
Edition language: English
An interesting read about appearance and how what we perceive as beauty is actually subtle clues that tell us that the person we're looking at is healthy and capable of bearing children or able to support someone while they were pregnant and/or rearing children. It's also an interesting look at how...
Argues for an evolutionary basis for the notion of "beauty" but then tries to argue than the current cultural ideal is somehow natural. Yeah, throughout humanity, blonde, young, skinny-waisted, big-boobed Barbie looks have been the epitome of health and fecundity? Give me a break. The idea that evol...
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