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    Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 8 May 2019
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    Men's sexual obsession with women's body curves is not driven by a quest for health and fertility, but by a quest for nubility. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513819300418 …pic.twitter.com/K1oXmSdRci

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      2. Dominik Deffner‏ @dominik_deffner 9 May 2019
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        Why is it then that male chimps generally prefer older and more experienced females? Any real socio-ecological theory anywhere??!

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      3. Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 9 May 2019
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        Because they do not have paternal investment in children but are completely promiscuous, they have no interest in lifetime fertility, but only in momentary, direct fertility, which is higher in older females. And: No menopause.

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      2. Women's Brain Proj.‏ @womensbrainpro 8 May 2019
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        Isn’t it the same outcome?

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      3. Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 8 May 2019
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        It had been (falsely) thought that women's curves are a honest signal of health, fertility, and, lastly "good genes". But this changes the playing field, confirming men don't go for good genes, but for nubility. That leads to a different outcome.

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        Essentially a young female who is past puberty,but unlikely to have had a child yet. So the don't raise another man's child issue.That does make evolutionary reproductive sense.

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      1. Stephen Inoue‏ @Riptide360 9 May 2019
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        Nubility is from the French word Nupitals, which means to marry. Societies marrying young men and women together for a lifetime of raising children would probably portray newly fertile male and female forms as the cultural norm.

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      2. ZeroSumGame‏ @pragmatico100 9 May 2019
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        Wait. Omega 3 is bad for babies??

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        At first blush it seems like it's worded as such, but in the larger context of the paper it's the depleting nature of DHA is the limiting infant brain development.

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      1. JoeyM‏ @JoelTH 9 May 2019
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        it means they are unlikely to be pregnant

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