#biology #evolution # Esthetic As Charles Darwin put it, >If all our women were to become as beautiful as the Venus de Medici, we should for a time be charmed; but we should soon wish for variety; and as soon as we had obtained variety, we should wish to see certain characters in our women a little exaggerated beyond the then existing common standard. Thus we see a [[Biology/Evolution/Red Queen]] competition between esthetic and taste. So even though we might do as in Brave New World, we will never converge towards satisfaction. This is not even considering the fact that we are programmed to never be satisfied, it's in our genes >The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more. ~ [[Yuval Noah Harari]] >Besides, a million years of natural selection shaped human nature to be ambitious to rear successful children, not to settle for contentment: people are programmed to desire, not to appreciate. ~ [[Matt Ridley]]