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Book Review: The Biology of Beauty: The Science behind Human Attractiveness

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Megan Coder

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

reference and user services quarterly

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443

H-Index - 34

eISSN - 2163-5242

pISSN - 1094-9054

DOI - 10.5860/rusq.58.4.7170

Subject(s) - beauty , attractiveness , sociology , foundation (evidence) , subject (documents) , biological sciences , evolutionary psychology , epistemology , social science , aesthetics , biology , art , philosophy , history , library science , computer science , archaeology , computational biology

Rachelle M. Smith, an associate professor of psychology and the chair of social sciences at Husson University, is the author of this one-volume work. The subject of beauty is complex and has been heavily researched among many academic disciplines like anthropology, biology, evolutionary studies, psychology, and sociology. This research “has added to a foundation of understanding what it means to be attractive and the biological underpinnings of beauty” (vii).

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