Animal Beauty: On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics

by Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Book Overview

An illustrated exploration of colors and patterns in the animal kingdom, what they communicate, and how they function in the social life of animals.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026203994X
• ISBN13: 9780262039949
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.3" x 7.3"