How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories : : Evolutionary Enigmas / / David Barash, Judith Eve Lipton.
So how did women get their curves? Why do they have breasts, while other mammals only develop breast tissue while lactating, and why do women menstruate, when virtually no other beings do so? What are the reasons for female orgasm? Why are human females kept in the dark about their own time of ovula...
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