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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Large breasts and wide hips generally indicate that a woman’s body is healthy for child bearing. Therefore, evolution can favour that men are more attracted to those features (or conversely, in populations where men favoured small hips and small breasts, infants might have slightly higher infant mortality and therefore have evolution pressure against these). Therefore humans evolved to prominently display these features.

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