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## Exaggerated, arbitrary and sexually dimorphic beauty, such as large female breasts or male penises, highly specific shapes of noses (e.g. upturned nose in females) or chin, i.e. [[Few millimeters of bone|few millimeters of bone]], dimples on back or cheeks, and also complex coloration patterns in birds. These kinds of beauty cannot fully be explained by simplicity because they seemingly have unnecessary specificity or complexity. Either there are functional constraints or correlated characters<ref>Price T, Langen T. 1992. ''Evolution of correlated characters.'' [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21236041 Abstract]]</ref> preventing a simpler shape, or sexual selection lead to arbitrary shapes becoming sexually attractive. | ## Exaggerated, arbitrary and sexually dimorphic beauty, such as large female breasts or male penises, highly specific shapes of noses (e.g. upturned nose in females) or chin, i.e. [[Few millimeters of bone|few millimeters of bone]], dimples on back or cheeks, and also complex coloration patterns in birds. These kinds of beauty cannot fully be explained by simplicity because they seemingly have unnecessary specificity or complexity. Either there are functional constraints or correlated characters<ref>Price T, Langen T. 1992. ''Evolution of correlated characters.'' [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21236041 Abstract]]</ref> preventing a simpler shape, or sexual selection lead to arbitrary shapes becoming sexually attractive. | ||
# Subjective beauty | # Subjective beauty | ||
## Individual preferences resulting from individual emotional experiences or individual development of circuitry for inherited sexual preferences regarding aesthetics. | ## Individual preferences resulting from individual emotional experiences or individual development of neuronal circuitry for inherited sexual preferences regarding aesthetics. | ||
Objective beauty is largely [[Sexual selection|sexually selected]], i.e. our ancestors tended to choose objectively beautiful mates and hence our species evolved to be beautiful, and possibly reinforced by feedback loops like [[Fisherian runaway]] or sensory bias<ref>Fuller, R. C., Houle, D., & Travis, J. 2005. ''Sensory Bias as an Explanation for the Evolution of Mate Preferences.'' [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/444443 Abstract]]</ref>. Furthermore, objective [[Scientific_Blackpill#Beauty_is_objective_and_measurable_in_the_brain|beauty plays a greater role]] than subjective beauty. | Objective beauty is largely [[Sexual selection|sexually selected]], i.e. our ancestors tended to choose objectively beautiful mates and hence our species evolved to be beautiful, and possibly reinforced by feedback loops like [[Fisherian runaway]] or sensory bias<ref>Fuller, R. C., Houle, D., & Travis, J. 2005. ''Sensory Bias as an Explanation for the Evolution of Mate Preferences.'' [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/444443 Abstract]]</ref>. Furthermore, objective [[Scientific_Blackpill#Beauty_is_objective_and_measurable_in_the_brain|beauty plays a greater role]] than subjective beauty. | ||