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Sexual Selection Email: Survival99 at gmail.com Abstract: Based
on the concepts of need-based aesthetics, this article attempts
to answer two questions about natural beauty: 1) Why does so
much colour appear in nature (including colourful flowers,
fruits, and avian feathers)? 2) Why do people see beauty in
natural environments or mountain-and-river paintings that lack
immediate utility? To answer a question about sexual selection
unresolved by Darwin and Wallace, this paper gives examples of
birds as evidence of how the sense of beauty originates: showing
how first needs such as food influenced female tastes for
beauty, and then the female tastes selected for male’s
appearances. Key words: beauty sense, natural beauty, sexual
selection, evolution, colourful birds Darwin left two questions
unanswered in his famous work The Origin of Species . The first
is why flowers and fruits evolved