[lbo-talk] Biology vs. Sociobiology: Father's Milk

[Jim Devine]

One of the questions that sociobiology or crude Darwinism (which
stresses natural selection über alles) can't answer is why women have
large breasts -- because the size plays no adaptive function and this
phenomenon is rare or even nonexistent outside of homo sapiens. One
theory -- cf. Marvin Harris' OUR KIND -- accepts Darwin's theory of
sexual selection, which many crude Darwinists see as almost heretical:
women have large breasts simply because men are more attracted to
women with them, so that the "large breast" gene is more likely to be
passed down the generations.

I must admit to being obsessed with this topic. ;-)

JD