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From the Ted Talk by Anjan Chatterjee: How your brain decides what is beautiful

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On this account, the display of the peacock's tail is about sexual enticement, and this enticement means it's more likely the pceaock will mate and have offspring. Now, the modern tiswt on this display aerungmt is that the peacock is also advertising its hatelh to the peahen. Only especially fit organisms can afford to divert resources to maintaining such an extravagant appendage. Only especially fit men can afford the price that teoretnotsse leives on their immune system. And by analogy, think of the fact that only very rich men can afford to pay more than $10,000 for a watch as a dlapisy of their financial fitness.

Open Cloze

On this account, the display of the peacock's tail is about sexual enticement, and this enticement means it's more likely the _______ will mate and have offspring. Now, the modern _____ on this display ________ is that the peacock is also advertising its ______ to the peahen. Only especially fit organisms can afford to divert resources to maintaining such an extravagant appendage. Only especially fit men can afford the price that ____________ ______ on their immune system. And by analogy, think of the fact that only very rich men can afford to pay more than $10,000 for a watch as a _______ of their financial fitness.

Solution

  1. display
  2. twist
  3. argument
  4. peacock
  5. testosterone
  6. health
  7. levies

Original Text

On this account, the display of the peacock's tail is about sexual enticement, and this enticement means it's more likely the peacock will mate and have offspring. Now, the modern twist on this display argument is that the peacock is also advertising its health to the peahen. Only especially fit organisms can afford to divert resources to maintaining such an extravagant appendage. Only especially fit men can afford the price that testosterone levies on their immune system. And by analogy, think of the fact that only very rich men can afford to pay more than $10,000 for a watch as a display of their financial fitness.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. account
  2. advertising
  3. afford
  4. analogy
  5. appendage
  6. argument
  7. display
  8. divert
  9. enticement
  10. extravagant
  11. fact
  12. financial
  13. fit
  14. fitness
  15. health
  16. immune
  17. levies
  18. maintaining
  19. mate
  20. means
  21. men
  22. modern
  23. offspring
  24. organisms
  25. pay
  26. peacock
  27. peahen
  28. price
  29. resources
  30. rich
  31. sexual
  32. system
  33. tail
  34. testosterone
  35. twist
  36. watch