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In higher animals, objective beauty has likely mostly evolved by a preference for simplicity (aesthetic sexual selection), i.e. members of a species tend to choose objectively/mathematically beautiful mates and hence species evolved to be beautiful and beauty became an important factor of attraction. This was possibly reinforced, narrowed and ''overcomplicated'' by feedback loops such as [[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> Contrary to [[social constructionism]], beauty is actually [[Scientific_Blackpill#Beauty_is_objective_and_measurable_in_the_brain|mostly objective]], which is [[Scientific_Blackpill#People_broadly_agree_on_who_is_good_looking_or_not.2C_and_it_affects_every_aspect_of_life|especially true]] for [[truecels|very physically unattractive people]].  Physical attractiveness as rated by others moderately predicts romantic attraction to roughly the same degree in men and women.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Blackpill#cite_note-30</ref>