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<p>'''Objective beauty''': Preferences for objective beauty are not acquired by experience, but inherited (''"hardwired"''). | <p>'''Objective beauty''': Preferences for objective beauty are not acquired by experience, but inherited (''"hardwired"''). | ||
This means there are ''fixed neuronal circuits'' in our brains which assign value to our percepts, partly by literally comparing them to ''hardwired patterns'' and partly by analyzing the ''mathematical/geometric beauty'' of the percepts, such as symmetry, smoothness, elegance, or more generally, ''simplicity'', which | This means there are ''fixed neuronal circuits'' in our brains which assign value to our percepts, partly by literally comparing them to ''hardwired patterns'' and partly by analyzing the ''mathematical/geometric beauty'' of the percepts, such as symmetry, smoothness, elegance, or more generally, ''simplicity'', which is common to many higher animals.<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct06/pretty</ref></p> | ||
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Related to this, ''sexually dimorphic beauty'' is another kind of objective beauty, which includes seemingly arbitrary, exaggerated and specific body features, such as large female breasts or male penises, highly specific shapes of noses (e.g. upturned nose in females, a robust mandible in men, i.e. [[Millimeters of bone|few millimeters of bone]]), as well as dimples on back or cheeks, muscle tone, cleavage, thigh gab, abs crack, six pack (see also [[:Category:Aesthetics]]), and also complex coloration patterns in many sighted higher animals. These kinds of beauty often cannot fully be explained by simplicity because they are seemingly unnecessary specific or complex. 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 [[Fisherian runaway|feedback loops in sexual selection]] resulted in arbitrary shapes becoming increasingly sexually attractive. | Related to this, ''sexually dimorphic beauty'' is another kind of objective beauty, which includes seemingly arbitrary, exaggerated and specific body features, such as large female breasts or male penises, highly specific shapes of noses (e.g. upturned nose in females, a robust mandible in men, i.e. [[Millimeters of bone|few millimeters of bone]]), as well as dimples on back or cheeks, muscle tone, cleavage, thigh gab, abs crack, six pack (see also [[:Category:Aesthetics]]), and also complex coloration patterns in many sighted higher animals. These kinds of beauty often cannot fully be explained by simplicity because they are seemingly unnecessary specific or complex. 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 [[Fisherian runaway|feedback loops in sexual selection]] resulted in arbitrary shapes becoming increasingly sexually attractive. | ||