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The permanently swollen breasts in human females are ''unique'' among primates. Breasts of other primate species only enlarge during oestrus and breastfeeding.<ref>https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/scientists-still-stumped-by-the-evolution-of-human-breasts</ref> Thus, the perma-swollen female breasts still signal sexual readiness in the human male hindbrain. This way women can conveniently gain sexual attention whenever they need it, e.g. to secure their mate's continued investment, to attract a new mate or for near-term resource accrual from [[pump and dump|short-term sexual encounters]].

Boobs may have been [[Fisherian runaway|runaway selected]] to mimic the [[buttocks]],<ref>Fuller, R. C., Houle, D., & Travis, J. 2005. ''Sensory Bias as an Explanation for the Evolution of Mate Preferences.'' [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/444443 Abstract]]</ref> also explaining men's immense thirst for their sight as it may have been amplified by Fisherian feedback. This means boobs have no biological purpose besides whoring, aesthetic pleasure and passing on this trait to increase the physical attractiveness of the female offspring. To the contrary, [[Good genes hypothesis|good geners]] would claim that well-formed boobs are honest signals of reproductive value, e.g. that they are evidence of the ability to grow fat deposits which are suggested to be prerequisites for reproduction,<ref>https://brill.com/view/journals/ijee/50/1/article-p87_5.xml</ref> however there is little evidence for this being the case. Large breasts do not even produce more mother milk.<ref>https://milkgenomics.org/article/do-larger-breasts-make-more-milk/</ref> The curved arch from collarbone to the boobs reminds of the ''[[lordosis]] posture'', thus boobs act as a ''frontal'' or ''secondary lordosis''.