Tuesday, March 27, 2012

By viewing the video on Darwinian Beauty, I agree with Dennis Dutton. Everyone is asked to give their definition of beauty and they all say, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. In this case, I would have to agree to disagree because everyone appreciates beauty differently. I believe our society has an effect on the way we view or determine beauty because we are so into our own culture. Beauty is something we adapt too, like Dennis Dutton said because our society already determines what is beauty for us. The presentation on Natural Selection made me look at beauty in another way, too. Dutton’s speech about Charles Darwin and the theory of Natural Selection made me take another look at beauty. As Dennis Dutton used the peacock as an example of natural selection it made me open my eyes because I never looked at it as simply colors. The female peacocks determine their mates based on the colors of the feathers. So, I believe beauty is more complex than many may think it is.

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