SuicideFuel "The Evolution of Beauty" by Richard Plum

[TheIncredibleIncel]

Everybody should read this book. Anyone ever heard of it before this post?

Here's a small review or summary of it. The source.

“Survival of the Fittest.” Although Darwin didn’t come up with that phrase, it has come to define his theory of evolution: that traits that improve a species’ odds of staying alive are specifically favored to be passed on. (Consider the Galápagos finches, whose beaks have changed over time to crack open different kinds of seeds.) But in The Evolution of Beauty, ornithologist Richard O. Prum argues that superficial desires play a role as well.

Take, for instance, the male club-winged manakin, a bird whose ornate feathers have evolved to produce a “song” while they fly (thanks to a series of bumps that vibrate in the wind) that attracts females. Far from making them fitter, these feathers — and the bigger bones required to support them — actually slow the manakins down, suggesting that, as Prum concludes, animal beauty standards “can be as irrational, unpredictable and dynamic” as our own.

 

[Deleted member 18214]

Aesthetics > genes

 

[Nothingness]

Everybody should read this book. Anyone ever heard of it before this post?

Here's a small review or summary of it. The source.

It is all propoganda.
Dont read modern books it is written by your enemies

 

[Shigechi]

This Darwinism survival of the fittest always reeked of bullshit. How can you have survival of the fittest in an controlled environment where women can do as they want and the game is rigged in their favor? Society is an aberration and any idiot talking about survival of the fittest in a globalized society and comparing to nature has a negative IQ.

 

[Deleted member 16455]

Aesthetics > genes

pretty much. That's how females choose their mate

 

[NoCopeNoHope]

This Darwinism survival of the fittest always reeked of bullshit. How can you have survival of the fittest in an controlled environment where women can do as they want and the game is rigged in their favor? Society is an aberration and any idiot talking about survival of the fittest in a globalized society and comparing to nature has a negative IQ.

High IQ. I guess any man with 200k in the bank is now the fittest since he can have 5 kids via surrogate.

 

[needsolution]

Aesthetics > genes

 

[TheIncredibleIncel]

Aesthetics > genes

Your aesthetics are largely determined by genes.