The evolved definition of beauty

Denise Dutton gave a tedtalk about what is beauty and were the definition of beauty evolved from. One of the the moments that Dutton gave in his lecture that confirms one of my deeply-held values that is true in the world is defining the word 'beauty'. I value all the creation that we have in this world and I believe that everyone and everything is beautiful. As Dutton said that beauty is something that is hard to define. Beauty is philosophy and physiology under the Darwinian theory (Dutton 2010). 

This moment is so strong to me in affirming what beauty can be and how it is different for everyone to see beauty in something. This was so strong to me because I have been exposed to define and judge what is beauty and how it could be. From my personal experience, one time in my Spanish class, my classmates and I have been seeing and reading articles of different people defining beauty in fashion designs, people, places and in arts. As a discussed in our Spanish class, my teacher asked me "Jocelyn, que es la bellesa para ti" "Jocelyn, what is beauty to you", at that moment I thought about how I would be answering that question. I remember saying that beauty was defined by our personal experiences and the different perspectives that a person can see something. It is something that can be defined different to each person by their personal "fits" and pleasure. I finished answering the question by saying that to me beauty is everything that I see. The source of my values is my personal life. The values that I have, makes them so important because that is what defines me. It is what guides me on making my personal decisions. Dutton speaks his values through this interest in defining beauty within the Darwinian theory. 

Dutton and I go in the same path of defining beauty, although Dutton leans more into the science perspective using the Darwinian theory and were as myself sees beauty, out of the science/society perspective. In seeing this video, and giving to much information about the evolved definition of the beauty concept made me see that all of this comes from the perspectives from science and natural selection, as I understood from the talk that Dutton gave. We should care about this because it is something that we still evolved in defining and carry out into society.