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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There’s a theory that prominent breasts, lower sexual dimorphism, smaller canines, upright posture and handedness co-evolved. Breasts signal that females are infertile, so less guarded by alpha males. Susceptible to approaches by smaller lower ranking males with gifts (sex for beatles). Bipedalism and handedness makes carrying gifts easier, being smaller is less of a threat and being less aggressive is attractive to females. In short, the nerds found ways to attract the females, who found ways to evade alpha male attention and preferred the nerds.

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