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<p>'''Objective beauty''': Objective preferences are not acquired by experience, but inherited (''"hardwired"'') and shared by a species or race. | <p>'''Objective beauty''': Objective preferences are not acquired by experience, but inherited (''"hardwired"'') and shared by a species or race. | ||
This means there are ''fixed neuronal circuits'' in our brains which assign value to our percepts in proportion to beauty. They do this by | This means there are ''fixed neuronal circuits'' in our brains which assign value to our percepts in proportion to beauty. They do this by comparing the percepts to ''hardwired patterns'' or by analyzing the ''mathematical or geometric beauty'' of the percepts, such as symmetry, smoothness, elegance, or more generally, ''simplicity'', which appears to be common to many higher animals.<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct06/pretty</ref></p> | ||
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Hardwired patterns come into play in ''sexually dimorphic beauty'', which often involves seemingly arbitrary, exaggerated and specific body features, such as large female breasts or male penises, nose shapes (e.g. upturned nose in females), a robust mandible and compact midface in men ([[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 and ornament in many sighted higher animals. | |||
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