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Biology - 2003
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The Nature Of Beauty: Australian Science Festival Forum
24/08/2003
What is the nature of beauty? Is it a universal experience? What makes a face beautiful, and is it the same across all cultures? Evolutionary biologists argue that beauty's biological purpose is to attract the opposite sex - that ours is a mating mind. But it's a hotly debated thesis that many argue ignores the more metaphysical delights of beauty, and undermines decades of feminist-driven debate about how the media constructs notions of attractiveness. Comedian Libbi Gorr joins a philosopher, a biologist and a psychologist in a lively debate hosted by All In the Mind's Natasha Mitchell.
