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42 Post author: Costanza 29 December 2011 11:23PM

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Comment author: peter_hurford 05 January 2012 05:57:48AM 0 points [-]

Also, flowers are often quite short-lived, and thus mostly undamaged; we find smoothness and symmetry attractive (for evolutionary reasons - they're signs of health in a human).

That makes sense, thanks. Do you have any more references on this?