Women who have reproduced recently are less likely to have passed the menopause.
I guess that was exactly part of what I meant.
Other mammals don’t live for decades after the menopause like we do.
Interesting point!! Apparently women really live exceptionally long, while their menopause (and its timing) itself is not unusual at all, and the most prevalent hypothesis is “grandmothering”, which posits what its name suggests, and essentially is, for our purposes, yet another symptom of them (say, our genes, or figuratively thus ‘our children’) desperately wanting us to stick around to care for these slow-up-growing and nerve-and-everything-wrecking offspring. In that sense, indirect extra, tiny support of the idea ‘they want to lure into having sex anytime as a loyalty encouraging devise and preventing us from straying too far’ or something like that. I’m vary if it sounds too simple but it does all seem to make sense (?).
Maybe our longevity after the menopause also led to human men evolving to be strongly attracted to women with a more youthful appearance. Attraction to boobs was then a counter-adaptation to prevent men from putting all their effort into pursuing pre-pubescent children.
I guess that was exactly part of what I meant.
Interesting point!! Apparently women really live exceptionally long, while their menopause (and its timing) itself is not unusual at all, and the most prevalent hypothesis is “grandmothering”, which posits what its name suggests, and essentially is, for our purposes, yet another symptom of them (say, our genes, or figuratively thus ‘our children’) desperately wanting us to stick around to care for these slow-up-growing and nerve-and-everything-wrecking offspring. In that sense, indirect extra, tiny support of the idea ‘they want to lure into having sex anytime as a loyalty encouraging devise and preventing us from straying too far’ or something like that. I’m vary if it sounds too simple but it does all seem to make sense (?).
Maybe our longevity after the menopause also led to human men evolving to be strongly attracted to women with a more youthful appearance. Attraction to boobs was then a counter-adaptation to prevent men from putting all their effort into pursuing pre-pubescent children.