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Animal Beauty: On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics Animal Beauty: On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics

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Are animals able to appreciate what humans refer to as “beauty”? The term scarcely ever appears nowadays in a scientific description of living things, but we humans may nonetheless find the colors, patterns, and songs of animals to be beautiful in apparently the same way that we see beauty in works of art. In Animal Beauty, Nobel Prize–winning biologist Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard describes how the colors and patterns displayed by animals arise, what they communicate, and how they function in the social life of animals. Watercolor drawings illustrate these amazing instances of animal beauty.

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: The MIT Press,., 2019

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9780262353359

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Jonathan Howard

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