basically like. why do women just have breasts all the time when to my knowledge the only purpose of them is to feed children. why don’t they go away like other mammals’ when you haven’t had a child.
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There was a documentary I saw forever ago that suggested a rather dark theory explaining breasts and the lack of clear signals for when a woman is fertile. Infanticide. Breasts that are feeding a baby are large, and signal that the woman has given birth. If the male sees this and wants a mate who can for-sure give him offspring, he looks for the woman with round breasts and kills her infant. After a time, she will be ready to get pregnant again.
The lack of clear fertility signals, in this scenario, helps conceal paternity so the male will not kill the infant, on the chance that it’s his own.
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