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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 the permanently swollen boobs of women have no biological purpose besides [[whore|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 [[whore|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> | ||
Though there ''does'' seem to be a link in the very-flat regime, namely the tuberous breast syndrome is frequently characterized by a small breast volume, lactation insufficiency, but also an abnormal pointy appearance.<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-1464-z</ref> | |||
== Intrasexual competition == | == Intrasexual competition == | ||