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Why men love breasts

14 points by ezl 14y ago

loceng 14y ago
Do we really need a reason why?
- nphard 14y ago
  People are looking for a biological/ scientific basis. Does one already exist?
  - loceng 14y ago
    I was pretty sure it was known. It's along with the natural built-in relaxes that babies have.
- wting 14y ago
  Science sets out to answer the "why's" of the world. Why is there lightning? Why does a fungus grow a certain way? (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121141051.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121141051.ht...) Sometimes answering these seemingly innocuous questions leads to deep insights into natural behaviors. “I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.” -- Richard Feynman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgaw9qe7DEE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgaw9qe7DEE
  - roopeshv 14y ago
    i think the gp was asking a rhetorical question
fossuser 14y ago
Someone is assuming facts not in evidence - I don't think 'men love breasts' is universally true. Even if it was it's trivial to speculate on evolutionary potential with no testing, not really worthy writing an article about. Hardly a 'theory' more of a hypothesis - and barely one at that.

14 points by ezl 14y ago

loceng 14y ago

Do we really need a reason why?

nphard 14y ago
People are looking for a biological/ scientific basis. Does one already exist?
- loceng 14y ago
  I was pretty sure it was known. It's along with the natural built-in relaxes that babies have.
wting 14y ago
Science sets out to answer the "why's" of the world. Why is there lightning? Why does a fungus grow a certain way? (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121141051.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121141051.ht...) Sometimes answering these seemingly innocuous questions leads to deep insights into natural behaviors. “I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.” -- Richard Feynman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgaw9qe7DEE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgaw9qe7DEE
- roopeshv 14y ago
  i think the gp was asking a rhetorical question

fossuser 14y ago

Someone is assuming facts not in evidence - I don't think 'men love breasts' is universally true. Even if it was it's trivial to speculate on evolutionary potential with no testing, not really worthy writing an article about. Hardly a 'theory' more of a hypothesis - and barely one at that.