Is That Shiny Thing Pretty, or Are You Just Thirsty?

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Humans are fascinated by shiny stuff. Not only do we find these things attractive, but we also tend to perceive them as being high quality. Well, turns out this infatuation may be related to our evolutionary relationship to water.

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