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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. | ||
## | ## Sexually dimorphic beauty, or arbitrary and even exaggerated body shapes and ornament, such as large female breasts or male penises, highly specific shapes of noses (e.g. upturned nose in females), 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 often cannot fully be explained by simplicity because they have seemingly 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. The relation to health only seems to be relevant for extreme cases like disfigurement and skin rashes and the like. Beauty and health are rather unrelated when disregarding these extremes.<ref>Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_people_are_perceived_much_more_positively_than_they_really_are</ref> | ||
# 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. | ||