Introduction: Beauty and nature

Raquel Ortells Bañeres; Eduardo M. García Roger

doi:10.7203/metode.13.25627

Introduction: Beauty and nature

Raquel Ortells Bañeres, Eduardo M. García Roger

Abstract

In a world where it seems best to go unnoticed, many creatures display their beauty in plain sight. We could even say that we are surrounded by beauty. A diverse and overwhelming beauty that inspires artists and engineers, one that scientists have tried (and keep trying) to study and understand.
In this Metode SSJ monograph we will see how science has searched for the evolutionary causes of sexual beauty in the process of mate choice and self-perpetuation, necessarily adopting the point of view of each organism and studying how beauty is perceived species by species. As the famous phrase, attributed to various literary figures, reminds us, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.13.25627

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Raquel Ortells Bañeres

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University of Valencia (Spain).

Professor of Ecology at the Department of Microbiology and Ecology and member of the management team of the Evolutionary Ecology Laboratory of the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (ICBiBE) at the University of Valencia (Spain). In her research she uses model zooplankton species to answer questions related to evolutionary processes and ecological trade-offs in Mediterranean environments.

Eduardo M. García Roger

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University of Valencia (Spain).

Professor of Ecology at the Department of Microbiology and Ecology and researcher at the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (ICBiBE) of the University of Valencia (Spain). He is a member of the ICBiBE Evolutionary Ecology Laboratory whose research focuses on evolutionary ecology and population ecology studies with aquatic microorganisms, more specifically on the demographic, genetic, and ecological analysis of zooplankton. Some of their scientific interests include the adaptation of rotifer life cycles to variable environments, processes mediating the coexistence of competing species, population differentiation and speciation, diapause as a dispersal strategy in time and space, and the evolutionary processes that maintain sexual reproduction in populations.

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