BEAUTY: THE VENUS OF WILENDORF (the role of fertility in the representation of female beauty/ linked to biology-very interesting!) (joëlle) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNP6XRLbYWo&feature=player_embedded Joëlle : A new one. Quite interesting and provocative theory on beauty -- that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply "in the eye of the beholder," are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins.
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BEAUTY:
THE VENUS OF WILENDORF (the role of fertility in the representation of female beauty/ linked to biology-very interesting!) (joëlle)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNP6XRLbYWo&feature=player_embedded
Joëlle : A new one. Quite interesting and provocative theory on beauty -- that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply "in the eye of the beholder," are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins.
http://www.ted.com/talks/denis_dutton_a_darwinian_theory_of_beauty.html