They are positive adaptions, so they are really explainable. For a start, lots of women do have small breasts or completely flat chests. Large breasts exist because they are seen as attractive because they can indicate hormone levels, maturity, ability to breastfeed etc. They also have certain cultural connotations (like motherhood) which some men might find appealing. Orgasm is biologically useful because it creates an intense, positive mental association with sex. The more pleasurable sex is the more people have it the more people reproduce. Men just so happen to have a more all-in-one design for orgasm than women, which is important for men because all their stuff is outside :P Women have more "complicated" genitals because they're safely tucked away inside.
In terms of reproduction women have a lot more biological obligations than men; they have to carry the child and breastfeed. Men have very few biological obligations; they have to have sex and that's all. So their bodies can afford to be simpler, but that doesn't mean women's bodies are illogical. They have different design because they have different specification :P
It's possible that humans have different adaptations than other animals because human behaviour is controlled less by biological urges and more by social and cultural pressures and our of individual desires. Very few animals are as cultural and social as humans are, which makes human reproductive selection different to most animals.
Prominent =/= big. Human females, I believe (I have not found contrary evidence) , are the only mammals who store fat around the mammary gland.
Your argument sounds circular to me. "women have prominent breasts because men are attracted to promiment breasts because women have prominent breasts"
Orgasms. I can't really get behind the female incentive theory as it goes against biological and historical reality/sense. It assumes that hostorically females had enough choice in having sex to cause the clitoris to stick around or develop but I don't think that's very realistic. I have additional ideas related to this but I'm not quite ready to offer them yet...still in progress!
Are women more evolved biologically than men?
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They are positive adaptions, so they are really explainable. For a start, lots of women do have small breasts or completely flat chests. Large breasts exist because they are seen as attractive because they can indicate hormone levels, maturity, ability to breastfeed etc. They also have certain cultural connotations (like motherhood) which some men might find appealing. Orgasm is biologically useful because it creates an intense, positive mental association with sex. The more pleasurable sex is the more people have it the more people reproduce. Men just so happen to have a more all-in-one design for orgasm than women, which is important for men because all their stuff is outside :P Women have more "complicated" genitals because they're safely tucked away inside.
In terms of reproduction women have a lot more biological obligations than men; they have to carry the child and breastfeed. Men have very few biological obligations; they have to have sex and that's all. So their bodies can afford to be simpler, but that doesn't mean women's bodies are illogical. They have different design because they have different specification :P
It's possible that humans have different adaptations than other animals because human behaviour is controlled less by biological urges and more by social and cultural pressures and our of individual desires. Very few animals are as cultural and social as humans are, which makes human reproductive selection different to most animals.
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You're so smart.
Prominent =/= big. Human females, I believe (I have not found contrary evidence) , are the only mammals who store fat around the mammary gland.
Your argument sounds circular to me. "women have prominent breasts because men are attracted to promiment breasts because women have prominent breasts"
Orgasms. I can't really get behind the female incentive theory as it goes against biological and historical reality/sense. It assumes that hostorically females had enough choice in having sex to cause the clitoris to stick around or develop but I don't think that's very realistic. I have additional ideas related to this but I'm not quite ready to offer them yet...still in progress!
You didn't say anything about hidden ovulation!
Thanks for the reply, by the way!