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What is "ugly", what is "beautiful"? This book explains that also this judgement is a product of evolution
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
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The Problem
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From Is to Beauty — From Perception to Cognition
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The Fitness of Beauty — Aesthetics and Adaptation
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolutionary Aesthetics
Editors: Eckart Voland, Karl Grammer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07142-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-43670-6Published: 12 June 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07822-4Published: 10 April 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-07142-7Published: 17 April 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 380
Topics: Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy, general, Zoology