最近读完了这本Learning to be wild, 有几个印象深刻的碎片。
Amazon 雨林里2种鹦鹉: 绿色的小鹦鹉 (parrots),和五彩缤纷的大鹦鹉(Macaws)
小鹦鹉的颜色是保护色,混入周围绿色雨林。这是natural selection
大鹦鹉因为个头大,天敌已经很少了。五彩缤纷是因为它们的审美,是因为它们用“美”来吸引异性。达尔文的理论也是这样:补充natural selection 的是sexual selection
作者的理解是,美,是自然界进化的动力之一
...the world appears beautiful so that the living may love being alive in it. Life has developed-and we have inherited-a sense of the beautiful to let us feel at home in the world, without further reason