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work_3qdzjsmiordmhh3ej2tpi7glbq	George Levine	Why Beauty Matters	2018	23	.pdf	application/pdf	10428	763	59	"to embrace Darwin's aesthetic view of life and fully incorporate the possibility of nonadaptive arbitrary aesthetic evolution by sexual selection."1 of sexual selection, that female aesthetic choice provides a better explanation than the traditional adaptationist one for many evolutionary While Prum rightly connects his own perspectives on sexual selection with Darwin's, his embrace of the female role in speciation and evolutionary change takes him a long way, even from the Darwin he is trying The idea of the aesthetic as a social contract is not the only important inference Prum draws from the evolutionary engagement (and contest) of female and male. beauty, "that the females admire the beauty of their male counterparts."16 "The taste for the beautiful," says Darwin, comfortably using language of intention, and desire, "is not of a special nature in the human	./cache/work_3qdzjsmiordmhh3ej2tpi7glbq.pdf	./txt/work_3qdzjsmiordmhh3ej2tpi7glbq.txt