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Let's bring human female breast size into the discussion as well, another unique feature among mammals (not counting cows..?) Here is just the first search hit
by PopAlongKid 2y ago
Let's bring human female breast size into the discussion as well, another unique feature among mammals (not counting cows..?)
Here is just the first search hit[0] I found on the subject, linking the two.
"Finally, Morris (1967) believes that breasts mimic fleshy buttocks, thereby providing a clear face-to-face signal in upright bipeds, but he does not explain the evolution of buttocks in the first place."
I vaguely recall some assigned reading in junior high school science, which described how mounting from the rear (where buttocks were an attractive sexual signal to males) was transformed to sex from the front, with breasts becoming larger as a substitute for the buttock as a sex attractant.
[0]https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/283699?journalCode=an https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/283699?jou...
Another: https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-19/why-are-women-the-only-primates-with-enlarged-breasts.html https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-19/why-are-w...
- ruthmarx 2y ago> Let's bring human female breast size into the discussion as well, another unique feature among mammals (not counting cows..?) I read a comment on HN once, someone linked to some random blog, maybe a biologist or anthropologist that had an amazing theory for why breasts developed the way they did, discounting the aquatic ape theory and others. I've never been able to find it with only the obvious keywords, maybe someone will repost it in this thread. Of course, I also don't remember what the theory was at all, which also makes it hard.