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The Paradox of Female Beauty: Part 2

Continuing the debate last week, this article will seek to investigate whether human reproduction is a product of evolution and how that relationship in May have cosmetic surgery procedures undergone by men and women. Basically, in this article I will examine evidence in three phases:

¨ What is our evolutionary heritage of our primate ancestors, as they emerge from our closest primate cousins?
¨ What major evolutionary events separate us from our closest primate cousins?
• How can we expect from these events evolutionary change our mode of reproduction and which is reflected in the practice of cosmetic surgery?

Sex in primates

There low no uniform code of sexual conduct among our closest primate relatives. Gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos all "do" differently.

The gorillas are less closely related than the other two, but they provide an instructive contrast. Female gorillas maintain a harem, with a small group of women closely controlled sexually involved with a single dominant male. Competition among males for dominance is fierce, but the final general with men and their harems live isolated from other families. The consequence of this is that male gorillas have bodies, large muscular, while female gorillas are considerably smaller, with little responsiveness of reproduction.

Chimpanzees and bonobos are similar but distinct characteristics reproduction. In both species, females display receptivity to reproduce swollen genitals. Also in two species, females are generally promiscuous, although chimpanzees are more likely to have female who links the couple, although for short periods of time.

The Human Touch

Humans are significantly different from our primate ancestors, who we are separated by three major evolutionary change:

· Bipédie
· Big Brain
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How could be these three changes have affected patterns of reproduction?

Bipedalism is the first evolutionary change that separates the human other primates, occurring between five and six million years that the australopithecines and chimpanzees diverged from the bonobo ancestors. Bipedalism would expect to create many changes in sexual selection. First, the presence of large buttock muscle side effect inherent in our position walk, we could read by the ancestors used to swelling signing the responsiveness of reproduction, as a sign of receptivity continues.

This effect was more pronounced among our early ancestors who have changed position between a biped and quadruped, both mass increase muscular while keeping her head down when the desired signal being read.

This model established during the transition, the signal would fail once our ancestors became fully bipedal, with less visual contact with the signal, thus leading to a desire, ie a pressure of sexual selection for a comparable signal more completely visible while standing. Enter the man unusually large breasts. How unusually large? Consider this comparison, our closest primate cousins.

Source: Sexual Paradox by Christine Fielder and Chris King.

Note also the relatively large human male penis, which would also be selected to attend the bipedalism, which makes the penis very visible. Once the men stood sexual selection by women for a larger penis can be expected, although the role of larger penis is more likely due to appear in men male domination battles than sex.

One can expect that bipedalism would promote the signals from the facial region, leading to more selective with respect to the structure and facial expressiveness.

Larger brain size appears to have been both a driver and a response use the tool among our earliest ancestors, which are accelerated in other primates, our ancestors once met with handsfree.

The large size of the brain had an adverse effect on the birth of man, already strained by changes in the region pelvic caused by bipedalism. To counter the difficulties of transition from child to large brain through the vaginal opening past Basin, human females who had their children at a stage earlier in fetal development would have a survival rate higher, eventually leading the current situation where humans give birth to a child whose brain is only 29% of their adult size, compared with chimpanzees, which give birth to a child whose brain is nearly 50% of the adult size.

The cost of premature birth? Human children are powerless to birth than any other animals, including marsupials. Anyone who had a child knows what that means months or years of Dedicated care. How a woman can expect to care for a child while living the life of great significance that our ancestors have had to walk to spread all over the globe? It would need help. She could receive the help of other women, but our closest primate cousins jealously guard their children from the hands of other females, If this seems an unlikely source of help for the first humans. So where can a woman ask for help to care for their child? In their companion.

The male human has put significant resources into educating their children, not only in terms of food and shelter, but investment of time. But for a woman to be able to count on investment of man, woman and man must be closely linked by ties that are likely to take five or six years necessary for a human child to be able to walk and socialize with a peer group for protection.

To foster this relationship, the man developed a complex mating ritual for display sex before and after sex emotional love. All cultures share this. Most of these rituals involve face-to-face communication, both verbally and nonverbally by the appearance and kiss and touch the bare skin. Skin to skin became the means by which humans have began to develop what we now call "erotic love". As a key component of readiness for love erotic, bare skin has become a desirable quality in males and females, thus creating a feedback loop of sexual selection, leading the almost total loss of hair by members of both sexes.

Cosmetic Fallout

If this account of sexual selection in evolution human is true, we would expect many people to try to present false indicators of a genetic positive is to say they would look more beautiful way that had been sexually selected for during our evolutionary history. In other words, we expect to practice plastic surgery center on three areas:

1) The area of the breast to distinguish male and female sexual dimorphism;
2) The face-to amplify the signals of health
3) lack of hair and skin healthy.

Let's see if the case.

According to statistics from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), surgical procedures assigned to a specific region the body other than the front, 72% were for the thoracic region, led by breast augmentation and breast lifts for women and reducing Breast men. Over 58% of all cosmetic treatments were directed towards the sector faces, including blepharoplasty, facelift, rhinoplasty, and a series of facial injections, including Botox Cosmetic. In addition, most other treatments are dedicated to the management of hair and give the skin looking healthy and youthful through microdermabrasion, skin resurfacing laser, laser hair removal and sclerotherapy.

It seems that evolution has in fact affected human sexuality, which means that we end up with the mystery of why it is the female our species and not men who are so devoted to ornamentation. Although one could say that men are investing heavily in children the incredible balance that childbirth has on a woman means that women continue to invest more, then why, when women be so much more ornate than men? We will discuss this issue further in the next episode.

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