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Re: Bipedalism and theorizing... was Re: Morgan and creationists
Richard Foy (rfoy@netcom.com)
Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:07:57 GMT
In article <31E0E0D4.7D84@hgu.mrc.ac.uk>,
James Borrett <jamesb@hgu.mrc.ac.uk> wrote:
>Richard Foy wrote:
>>
>> In article <31DB42FC.2D23@chattanooga.net>,
>> Wallace Neslund <morbidia@chattanooga.net> wrote: Due to this, Homo females
>> >early on developed a large soft breast to act as a shock absorber to
>> >cushion the head and brain. In a feed back loop of larger
>> >breasts and better brain growth, Hss females developed the large breast
>> >seen today.
>
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>Elaine Morgan suggested in "The Descent Of Woman" in 1972 that the human
>female breast shape evolved because we lost our hair, so the babies could
>no longer hold on and pull themsleves to the nipple when being
>breast-fed, so the breast shape gives them something to hold onto and
>makes the nipple more accessible. (She then went on to compare the breast
>shape of humans with the breast shape of dugongs).
That makes a lot more sense to me than the breast devloped as a
result of sexual selection.
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