Mixtures of Simple Perceptual Opposites in Animal Courtship and Human Culture

From a simple perspective aesthetic cultural phenomena and the mating dances of animals are similar in structure.

Rushing courtship ceremony of the western grebe (*Aechmophorus occidentalis*). Photo by Keneva Photography on Shutterstock. Standard license.

“Some kind of aesthetic activity is apparently a feature of all the 3,000 or so distinguishable cultures that are to be found on the earth’s…

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A concept of aesthetic complexity based on universal animal preferences for mixtures of simple, more and less exciting physical and psychological opposites.

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Mixtures of Simple Perceptual Opposites in Animal Courtship and Human Culture

From a simple perspective aesthetic cultural phenomena and the mating dances of animals are similar in structure.

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