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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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
Why is it then that male chimps generally prefer older and more experienced females? Any real socio-ecological theory anywhere??!
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.
All I'm saying is that human mating systems are super variable and little is known about the ancestral form, so why would selection favour one specific mechanism when different systems dramatically change incentives for different mating strategies. We need formal theory not 
Human males, contrary to chimps, enter pair bonds and must make paternal investments for offspring survival, which triggers male choosiness, unknown in promiscuous primates, which explains a unique preference for nubile females and their higher lifetime reproductive potential.
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