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Objective beauty has likely mostly evolved by a preference for simplicity (aesthetic sexual selection) which is common to many higher animals.<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct06/pretty</ref> This means members of a species tended to choose objectively/mathematically beautiful mates and hence species evolved to be beautiful and beauty became an important factor of attraction. | Objective beauty has likely mostly evolved by a preference for simplicity (aesthetic sexual selection) which is common to many higher animals.<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct06/pretty</ref> This means members of a species tended to choose objectively/mathematically beautiful mates and hence species evolved to be beautiful and beauty became an important factor of attraction. | ||
Complex ornament and [[few millimeters of bone]] likely cannot entirely be explained by mathematical simplicity because they seems to be unnecessary specific and complex. | Complex ornament and [[few millimeters of bone]] likely cannot entirely be explained by mathematical simplicity because they seems to be unnecessary specific and complex. | ||
Either there are functional constraints<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 feedback loops in sexual selection such as [[Fisherian runaway]] and ''sensory bias'' | Either there are functional constraints<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 feedback loops in sexual selection such as [[Fisherian runaway]] and ''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> resulted in arbitrary shapes becoming increasingly sexually attractive, which in turn, overcomplicated or exaggerated these body features. | ||
Such feedback loops can explain the immense sexual attraction to superficial traits which have barely any relevance for survival except "social survival". | Such feedback loops can explain the immense sexual attraction to superficial traits which have barely any relevance for survival except "social survival". | ||