Non native speaker 🙃.
Are we the unique specie that is always horny or there are others?
Also why the arrive of the “horniess” is that early, 11.17 yo for males and 12.6 yo for females (Means from this paper: Timing of Puberty and Sexuality in Men and Women by Ostovich & Sabini , 2005) I mean this totally make sense for us boys, if you star having sex soon probably you will have more descendants, but this don’t have any benefits (beside is a funny feeling…) for females, Is not the twenties the ideal ages to have babys?
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Many animals have a specific mating season to try and time their births with the seasons rather than trying to raise young in the winter.
Humans come from a place that has little seasonal variety and are useless infants for over a year, so there’s no value in trying to time births with seasons – they can mate year round.
This is common among species that don’t deal with seasonal shifts.
For puberty and offspring volume, remember this all evolved when we lived in caves. There’s no benefit to “building a career first” when your career is “caveman”
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