why don’t breasts only form when you’re pregnant?

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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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I’m sure the fertility angle people have mentioned is a part of it but also the ability to feed. Same reason women are evolutionarily drawn to strong men. “He’s strong and he can catch lots of animals to feed me and my babies.” Men see large breasts or wide hips and the monkey brain thinks “She can bear many children and feed them plenty.” Most things in the world can get boiled down to reproduction if you really look at them. I think we’ve even seen these traits evolve over time where women have been attracted to men with money, he can take care of her and children, or even more recently the “dad bod” , looks like a dad so he can probably take care of children.

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