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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Posted by: gminter | April 25, 2004 10:18 PM