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In reply to the discussion: "I've started telling my daughters I'm beautiful" [View all]GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)Among apes social status increases sexual attractiveness. The higher status apes have greater access to food, better shelter, etc. which increases survival rates of offspring. So they become prized mates.
Stretched necks and deformed feet interfered with a woman's ability to work so she needed servants to help her. Only the higher status females could have servants. Heavy women had more food or they wouldn't be heavy.
But the medical fact still remains that at 30% body fat a woman is at her greatest fetility and ability to concieve and care for a baby.
Young women are healthier, and have less genetic damage to their eggs.
Narrow hips mean a narrow birth canal and difficulty in child bearing.
A smooth complexion shows a lack of parasites.
A facial shape closer to average showed a lack of deformaties.
This stuff has been greatly studied and books written about it. You are putting yourself in the position of Creationists who argue against evolution.