#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

7098.254 - 7120.249 Sarah Walker

Well, the point is you're saying it's an adaptive trait for like sexual selection or something. And I'm saying that the adaptation that beauty confers is far richer than that. And some of the adaptation... is about social hierarchy and social mobility and just plain social dynamics. Like, why do some people dress goth? It's because they identify with a community and a culture associated with that.