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Due to this preference, members of a species tended to choose objectively/mathematically beautiful mates and hence species evolved to be beautiful (''aesthetic sexual selection'') and beauty became an important factor of attraction. | Due to this preference, members of a species tended to choose objectively/mathematically beautiful mates and hence species evolved to be beautiful (''aesthetic sexual selection'') and beauty became an important factor of attraction. | ||
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, for conspicuously advertising oneself for the opposite sex. | ||
Attraction to secondary sexual characteristics also increases fitness because seeking out the opposite sex is conductive for reproduction. | Attraction to secondary sexual characteristics also increases fitness because seeking out the opposite sex is conductive for reproduction. | ||