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en-wikipedia-org-566		Evolutionary aesthetics - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2030	322	44	Evolutionary aesthetics Wikipedia Evolutionary psychology theories in which the basic aesthetic preferences of Homo sapiens are argued to have evolved in order to enhance survival and reproductive success History of evolutionary theory Evolutionary aesthetics refers to evolutionary psychology theories in which the basic aesthetic preferences of Homo sapiens are argued to have evolved in order to enhance survival and reproductive success.[1] Based on this theory, things like color preference, preferred mate body ratios, shapes, emotional ties with objects, and many other aspects of the aesthetic experience can be explained with reference to human evolution.[2] 1 Aesthetics and evolutionary psychology Aesthetics and evolutionary psychology[edit] This universality suggests that art is related to evolutionary adaptations. It covers vocal communication in non-human animal species, theories of the evolution of human music, and cross-cultural human universals in musical ability and processing. Main article: Evolution of emotion Evolutionary psychology and culture	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-566.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-566.txt