Why Women Have Breasts

Re:Why Women Have Breasts by cool-RR on Saturday May 30, 2009 @08:37AM (#633574)

When you see a feature of our bodies that has obvious disadvantages, it will almost always have some redeeming advantage, obvious or not. And the bigger the disadvantage is, the bigger the advantage must be.

I know there are exceptions to this rule, like maybe the appendix or the little finger in our feet, but these are exceptions, not the rule.

So I have pointed out the disadvantage of having the testicles placed in an exposed part of the body; I ask, what is the advantage?

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Re:Why Women Have Breasts by rue on Saturday May 30, 2009 @11:22AM (#633733)

I pointed out that there is no need for a seeming disadvantage to be offset by some redeeming advantage.

You could come up with any number of possible reasons if you were looking for a "reason," although it could simply be a side-effect of some other mutation (such as the layout of the pelvis, intestines and abdominal muscles being more efficient for hunting/etc. without the "extra" parts.)

Here is another important inversion that you seem not to have considered, though: do you think that when externalisation first happened, testicles were as sensitive to pain as they are now?

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