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# Objective beauty (See also: [[:Category:Aesthetics]]) | # Objective beauty (See also: [[:Category:Aesthetics]]) | ||
## Mathematical/geometric beauty such as symmetry, smoothness, elegance, or more generally, simplicity. | ## Mathematical/geometric beauty such as symmetry, smoothness, elegance, or more generally, simplicity. | ||
## 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 results in 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 results in arbitrary shapes becoming sexually attractive, or indicators of health. Though this seems to be only the relevant for disfigurement and skin rashes and the like being the opposite of beauty. Beauty and health are not strongly related at all when disregarding these. | ||
# Subjective beauty | # Subjective beauty | ||
## Individual preferences resulting from individual emotional experiences or individual development of neuronal 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. | ||