A Darwinian Theory of Beauty?

Well….. The video ¨A Darwinian Theory of Beauty? ¨ by Denis Duton is so interesting and funny. In the video, Duton talk about the concept of “beauty”, the experience that produced the concept and some   definitions of “Beauty”. Darwin says that beauty “It´s in the eye of the beholder”. I think the same of Darwin, sometimes when we see something beauty, we experiments certain emotions produced for the beauty of the object. But sometimes, the beauty is culturally conditioned. For example, the Padaung women, use brass coils that are placed around the neck .This is for hers a beauty symbol, but maybe for the rest of women, it’s a little shocking.

Duton also talk about the experience of beauty has relation with a natural selection and the sexual selection. The prehistorically men evolved for adapted, that is the natural selection, adapted for survive. The sexual selection has a relation with reproduction,but there are factors that favor this action, like the Padaung woman with the coils in the neck.

In the career who I study the topic “Beauty” has too much importance. In my particular opinion, the beauty has a relation with the emotions who produced by the object (art, music, places, etc).  The concept of “Beauty” is very broad, and the meaning depends on the own people.

I hope you like the video.......  bye.

http://www.ted.com/talks/denis_dutton_a_darwinian_theory_of_beauty.html