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Do We Have More than Five Senses?

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What Color Do You Choose for Your Book Cover?

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I was particularly interested because it did talk a lot about humans. So for me, the thing that I found really interesting about your book was that it was largely looking at the human experience with reference to the animal world. And one of the things that you talk about is our concept of beauty and what as humans we find beautiful. Both men and women tend to find a female face more attractive than a male face. This isn't necessarily a thing about sexual orientation. It just is, it seems to be that to a human eye, the female face is a more attractive face. But there's danger in ascribing somebody value based on some kind of subjective assessment of their attractiveness.

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