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

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 10:30:03 PDT 2005


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



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