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Hotties are Darwinian

Gender Studies

Take that creationists:

Much of evolutionary aesthetics, an expanding field of study, claims that who we find beautiful is a function of what Darwin termed "sexual selection." This phenomenon is responsible for seemingly absurd developments like a peacock's speckled tail and a moose's antlers - attributes that sometimes hinder the survival of one sex of a certain species, but which evolution has programmed to be sexually attractive, Thornhill said. This same selection is also widely accepted in evolutionary biology as the reason for human male competitiveness for "mates," and why humans consider similar characteristics attractive.

Research claims standards of beauty based on evolutionary ideals

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A good book length study of the topic can be found in Nancy Etcoff's Survival of the Prettiest. Etcoff is a part of the Evolutionary Psychology movement, and her book discusses, among other things, the role that beauty plays in the selection of mating partners.

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