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Some deep sea fish may be particularly ugly due to being blind. | Some deep sea fish may be particularly ugly due to being blind. | ||
Some simple and elegant body shapes may, however, not necessarily be a result of aesthetic selection, but simply coincidental result of optimizing e.g. for resources efficiency or resilience favoring simple shapes. This explains why even blind or very primitive species and even plants can be beautiful. Though some flowers in turn may have evolved beauty to be particularly salient to insects who spread their pollen, and beauty likely has similar function of attracting sex partners in animals as well. | Some simple and elegant body shapes may, however, not necessarily be a result of aesthetic selection, but simply coincidental result of optimizing e.g. for resources efficiency or resilience favoring simple shapes. This explains why even blind or very primitive species and even plants can be beautiful. Though some flowers in turn may have evolved beauty to be particularly salient to insects who spread their pollen, and beauty likely has similar function of attracting sex partners in animals as well. | ||
Attraction to | Attraction to secondary sexual characteristics also increases fitness because seeking out the opposite sex is conductive for reproduction. | ||
Complex ornament and "few millimeters of bone", however, likely cannot entirely be explained by mathematical simplicity because they are unnecessary specific and complex. The simplest nose shape would be simply two nostrils as found in some apes. A flat chest is simpler than one with permanently swollen breasts. Even more obviously, the peacock tail is unnecessarily complex. | Complex ornament and "few millimeters of bone", however, likely cannot entirely be explained by mathematical simplicity because they are unnecessary specific and complex. The simplest nose shape would be simply two nostrils as found in some apes. A flat chest is simpler than one with permanently swollen breasts. Even more obviously, the peacock tail is unnecessarily complex. | ||