Imagine that you were a paleolithic craftsman making handaxes. You take your time to make high quality handaxes that are beautiful and durable. Meanwhile anothe

Imagine that you were a paleolithic craftsman making handaxes. You take your time to make high quality handaxes that are beautiful and durable. Meanwhile another guy only spends 60% as much time making handaxes, only achieving 80% of the beauty and durability. But he has more time to slaughter game, bringing in meat, organs and hide for the tribe - the proxy to status in the tribe. So he is more 'succesful' than you, genetically. Atlernatively, another tribe manages to make an axe for every man in their tribe before your tribe does, since they are more sloppy but more effective in their craftsmanship. You get your skull cleaved, ending your lineage. And that, folks, is why people unnderappreciate beauty. The 'beauty' of paragraph-long evo psych theories is that they can explain pretty much anything.