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Letter: Is beauty in the eyes of the spider beholder?

Published 7 June 2017

From Rob Holmes, Lesmurdie, Western Australia

Adrian Barnett's review of Richard O. Prum's The Evolution of Beauty suggests an interesting and persuasive argument that sexual selection leads to a sense of beauty (6 May, p 44). Many species of jumping spiders weighing just a microgram or so have elaborate and colourful sexual displays. Are they on the way to evolving a sense of beauty? Maybe not.

Issue no. 3129 published 10 June 2017

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