Breast,hips, and buttocks revisited: Honest fatness for honest fitness |
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| Institution: | 1. Laboratory of Hormone Measurement, Department of Physiology and Behavior, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil;2. Department of Sports Methods and Techniques, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil;3. KU Leuven Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Leuven, Belgium;4. Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand;5. Department of Clinical Medicine, Health Sciences Center, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil;6. Western Sydney University, NICM Health Research Institute, Westmead, Australia;7. School of Kinesiology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States |
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| Abstract: | This paper comments on: Low, B. S., Alexander, R. D., and Noonan, K.M. Human hips, breast, and buttocks: Is fat deceptive? Ethology and Sociobiology 8: 249-247, 1987. In it I argue that: - 1.1. Sexual selection has probably not been the most important selection pressure on
- 2.female human body shape.
- 3.2. Male humans in different cultures find different aspects of the female body attractive
- 4.and therefore are unlikely to have exerted consistent directional sexual selection on
- 5.the female body.
- 6.3. Breast size is not correlated with lactation success.
- 7.4. Visible hip width is not correlated with parturition success.
- 8.5. Women would lower their fitness if they tried to deceive men about their internal
- 9.pelvic dimensions.
- 10.6. There are many alternative hypothesis to explain the existence of fat onwomen's
- 11.breast, hips, and buttocks.
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