[email protected] wrote:
I just read this :-) I fully agree:
Breasts float, and the larger they are, the more likely the nipples can reach the surface.
If a woman back-floats, the nipples will always be above the surface.
Even standing in chest high water, it is the nipples that reach the surface first if breasts are large enough, making it easier for a swimming baby to latch on.
Not only can newborns float & have swimming reflexes almost from birth, they can hold their breaths & suckle underwater.
They also have thick, rubbery lips acting as a seal against water infiltration.
By grabbing hold of their mother's long hair, they can float & nurse while in the water.
Bonobos, morphologically closer to us than chimpanzees, also occasionally have noticeable fatty breasts, are often bipedal, wade frequently in water, and are sometimes furless.
This ties in with quite a lot of evidence which suggests that a common ancestor of chimps/bonobos & humans underwent a semi-aquatic phase, but that humans went further after diverging.
Francesca Mansfield 11.4.22
No marine/aquatic mammal has external breasts.
Whales? No. Dolphins? No. Otters? No. Beavers? No. Seals? No.
Otters? No. Manatees? No. Sea Lion? No. Walrus? No.
Polar bear (Ursus maritimus, or maritime bear)? No. Nutria? No.
Hippos? No. Platypus? No.
IOW, no cetacean, pinniped, sirenian, marine fissiped or any
other aquatic mammal...
On planet AA, the children of small breasted females would starve
if they had to nurse in water.
Larger breasts in humans? Sexual selection. If you have trouble
following that then you need to get out more.
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