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==Runaway hypothesis== | ==Runaway hypothesis== | ||
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> | 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 the permanently swollen boobs of women 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> | ||
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