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Simple and elegant body shapes can also result from optimizing resource efficiency or resilience. | Simple and elegant body shapes can also result from optimizing resource efficiency or resilience. | ||
This explains why even blind or primitive species and plants are often beautiful. | This explains why even blind or primitive species and plants are often beautiful. | ||
Though, some flowers may have evolved beauty to be particularly salient to insects who spread their pollen and beauty has similar function of ''conspicuously advertising'' oneself for the opposite sex. | Though, some flowers may have evolved beauty to be particularly salient to insects who spread their pollen and beauty has similar function of ''conspicuously advertising'' oneself for the opposite sex in animals. | ||
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. | ||