Beauty: a bioform of storytelling?
According to twentieth-century experimental psychology, beauty consisted mainly in the recognition of a host of prototypical forms, so perceiving something average and generic aroused a sense of reassuring familiarity. The recent discovery of the principles of Darwinism, above all by neuro-scientist...
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| description | According to twentieth-century experimental psychology, beauty consisted mainly in the recognition of a host of prototypical forms, so perceiving something average and generic aroused a sense of reassuring familiarity. The recent discovery of the principles of Darwinism, above all by neuro-scientists and bio-neurologists, on the other hand, suggested the opposite, namely that beauty is a form of evolutionary fitness: a sort of storytelling used firstly in the animal kingdom, then by mankind up to the Late Stone Age, in which males tried to persuade a female to mate. The recent theory of the so-called ‘period-eye’ has shown the constant influence of our surroundings on our perception of what is beautiful, confirming the neo-Darwin theories, in the light of historical and social mechanisms, not only bio-evolutionary. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dc46ca5a6b894e778f8d14059e19cc802024-04-02T13:11:17ZdeuMilano University PressEnthymema2037-24262018-12-0102213614910.13130/2037-2426/106529324Beauty: a bioform of storytelling?Stefano Calabrese0Università di Modena e Reggio EmiliaAccording to twentieth-century experimental psychology, beauty consisted mainly in the recognition of a host of prototypical forms, so perceiving something average and generic aroused a sense of reassuring familiarity. The recent discovery of the principles of Darwinism, above all by neuro-scientists and bio-neurologists, on the other hand, suggested the opposite, namely that beauty is a form of evolutionary fitness: a sort of storytelling used firstly in the animal kingdom, then by mankind up to the Late Stone Age, in which males tried to persuade a female to mate. The recent theory of the so-called ‘period-eye’ has shown the constant influence of our surroundings on our perception of what is beautiful, confirming the neo-Darwin theories, in the light of historical and social mechanisms, not only bio-evolutionary.https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/article/view/10652beautyaesthetic perceptionprototypicalityevolutionary fitnessperiod-eyerewarding systempeak shiftstorytelling |
| spellingShingle | Stefano Calabrese Beauty: a bioform of storytelling? Enthymema beauty aesthetic perception prototypicality evolutionary fitness period-eye rewarding system peak shift storytelling |
| title | Beauty: a bioform of storytelling? |
| title_full | Beauty: a bioform of storytelling? |
| title_fullStr | Beauty: a bioform of storytelling? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beauty: a bioform of storytelling? |
| title_short | Beauty: a bioform of storytelling? |
| title_sort | beauty a bioform of storytelling |
| topic | beauty aesthetic perception prototypicality evolutionary fitness period-eye rewarding system peak shift storytelling |
| url | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/article/view/10652 |
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