Carrol Cox:
> The simple response probably to such silliness is that beauty isn't a
> trait, & only traits are inheritable. What we call beauty would be a
> more or less random assemblage of traits evolved quite independently of
> their relation ship to "beauty."
> ....
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
More precisely, as a self-appointed pseudo-intellectual, the best sort, I would look for _beauty_ in the form of various inherited, genetically-specified functions in the nervous systems of beauty-beholders which are refined by experience, culture, and other teachers, very much like language but much more fundamental -- even insects appreciate beauty. That's why plants grow flowers for them.
-- Gordon