Animal beauty : on the evolution of biological aesthetics /
Nüsslein-Volhard, C.(Christiane)author.
Grutzmacher, Suse,illustrator.
Howard, Jonathan,1943-translator.
Are animals able to appreciate what humans refer to as "beauty"? The term scarcely appears nowadays in a scientific description of living things, but we humans may nonethelsss 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 this book, the author 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.
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references.
Part 1. Evolution and aesthetics. Evolution ; Beauty ; Ornament ; Aesthetics ; Communication ; Pattern recognition -- Part 2. The development of colors and patterns. Colors ; Skin ; Making patterns ; Pigment cells ; Zebrafish ; Evolution of beauty.
Are animals able to appreciate what humans refer to as "beauty"? The term scarcely appears nowadays in a scientific description of living things, but we humans may nonethelsss 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 this book, the author 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.
Evolution (Biology)
Nature (Aesthetics)
Sexual selection in animals.
Evolution (Biology)
Nature (Aesthetics)
Sexual selection in animals.