Why do women have breasts? (see link for glitch-free re-upload)

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No one knows, but this is my hypothesis. Warning: contains no graphic erotic images whatsoever, sorry. Just a bloke talking.
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I hope that I have avoided crudeness enough to avoid shocking my viewers. This is a scientific hypothesis, and I make no apology for not copiously illustrating the subject in a manner that may have pleased some.
It may amaze some viewers that as I talked, I was missing out chunks of the argument for the sake of brevity. I had a stopwatch below the camera, and you can see me glance down at it with mounting horror a few times in the video. This meant that by the second half of the video, I had to do rather a lot of thinking on my feet to keep the train of thought going in the light of things that I had not said earlier. This subject was a definite strain on my ability to do an entire video in one continuous shot.
It amazed me that this video was rejected as a vehicle for sponsorship, because of its 'sensitive topic'. This was the result of a culture-clash. In the USA, people find breasts a shameful topic, whereas the rest of the world seems generally more relaxed on the matter. When it was rejected, I didn't know whether it was the human evolution aspect of the video that made it 'sensitive' or the fact that the body part was one unique to women. Would the evolution of knees or beards be similarly sensitive?
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[@antiussentiment]

I like to judge women by how attractive they find tanks.

[@aliberkozderya3112]

I watch lindybeige for these comments

[@jeremywallis7594]

Well then I guess I have a worthy woman then

[@grizzlygrizzle]

Then there's the thing about guys who buy cars to attract chicks ending up with the kind of chicks who are attracted to cars, which isn't necessarily a good thing. Some of them are gold-diggers, and some are gearheads, and the former are often ditzy on top of being greedy. I guess you don't have that problem with tanks, since tanks aren't status symbols.

[@roylecomte4606]

New Zealand, farmer wants wife that can drive tractor. Send photo of tractor

[@ChaosBW]

I judge women by muscule tone.

[@NilsEbbesen]

"Breast on women of fertile age is sexy" - lindybeige 2017

[@LukeStrongflame]

"The face is the seat" - lindybeige 2017

[@gong1616]

Yo so smart its a crime!

[@baronofbahlingen9662]

NilsEbbesen your profile pic makes that work so well

[@hoangtran4736]

humans start become fertile around the age of 14. FBI OPEN UP

[@pieceofschmidtgames6389]

Hoàng Trần Minh depends on if they are late bloomers, also if ya engage in coitis with em while also underage you are fine.

[@DaebakMonkey]

Human looking at peacock: “how beautiful!” Peacock looking at woman: “wow, nice rack!”

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

what if you put fake breasts on peacock and peahens, so they can feed their partners and themselves?

[@luigicadorna8644]

Lindybeige: Hhhnnnnnnngh.... cuckoldry....

[@monopoly1027]

Lindybeige, askin' the real questions.

[@JosipRadnik1]

Indeed, although I must admid that I am a bit astonished about the purpose of asking such a simple question and the lenght of the video, regarding the answer, which in fact should come to everyone as a complete no brainer: women have breasts so men can fix their eyes somewhere - that's why!

[@Gstrangeman96]

"Breasts are like nuclear missiles" This might just be my favourite quote of all time, from anyone.

[@sjoormen1]

Mine too.

[@pieceofschmidtgames6389]

Quick give me the breast codes!

[@sashabraus9422]

@@pieceofschmidtgames6389 I want the code, Mr. Titty Expert

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

You could change brassiere sizes from just numbers to kilotons to megatons...😊

[@croeahtndcrleagcr7960]

bullet bras and to some extent en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove exploited this concept

[@daapdary]

Is 0:12 through 0:24 censored? I hear nothing. At first, I thought my headphone batteries died.

[@henryryk16]

there is a sound glitch free version in the description

[@fredricknoe3114]

Same for me.

[@revmpandora]

Notice the boobs blink at you at the end of the silent bit

[@stupidstuff3876]

Nah he did sumthing to the video

[@ScrimmyBingus42]

this has happened to me on other videos...

[@haleffect9011]

"breasts are like nuclear missiles. They're expensive, they're useless, but if everyone else has got them, then you want them too." Wow, that has got to be Lindybeige's best quote yet!

[@iota-09]

that's... wow, finally i find someone who gives me a proper reason to why one should like breasts(not that that one has to be me anyway). i mean, it's not a GOOD reason... but it's a reason, one that is understandable by someone who doesn't find anything positive in breasts. i'm just honestly impressed, really.

[@Xylos144]

I believe they called it "Dr. Strangelove"

[@JosephParker_Nottheboxer]

That's it, from now on I'm going to intentionally evaluate nuclear missiles as sexy. That is obviously the point that Lindybeige is making here right?

[@Xylos144]

The sudden shift has begun! All men who don't follow suit will be rendered childless by their instinctual disgust of radioactive Armageddon.

[@alexnil1230]

nukes are not useless, if you got nukes you are automaticly stronger than anyone without them

[@oldbeardo473]

You've been away for two weeks and you start talking about breasts. Are you alright?

[@carsonking5549]

He saw tits whilst he was away. :)

[@dyingsun23]

Measuring their pulchritude :)

[@Magmafrost13]

You think two weeks is a long wait, this is the second part to a video he put up THREE YEARS AGO

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

it's like when you drink yourself wasted, and then the morning after you don't mind doing the everyday chores because you come from having the party of your life. takes a while for the joy to wash down, so you just don't mind doing less enjoyable things. he's had enough to last a month, so he can concentrate for half an hour like it's nothing.

[@horner385]

Boys locker room:

[@stephenlyon1358]

Grab em by the p... Its just locker room talk

[@pencil677]

@@stephenlyon1358 no

[@Human1136]

Underrated comment

[@astronautique]

they're for clickbait thumbnails

[@trequor]

Comment of the year

[@lukassaunders7420]

"The face is the seat" - a man of culture

[@beback_]

10:44

[@AveImperatorProductions]

How do you do a single cut 30 minute video on the origin of mammaries without stopping to laugh even once? I'd say that qualifies as a super power

[@GoranXII]

Moreover, how the hell do you do it without a script?

[@manueltoloza6007]

What's to laugh about? he's an adult not a teen going through puberty

[@theblitz6794]

British stoicism mate

[@WorkDayPegasus]

+Manuel Toloza are you saying that adults in general don't laugh about when speaking on this matter? That's what your last sentence gives an impression of. Talking about things like these, and then realize that your own experiences confirmes it, can be funny to some. Laughing at something, anything, is not a "teen thing". It's definetly a human thing (not sure if other animals laugh).

[@manueltoloza6007]

It can be funny to some yes (certainly not to me) but when estructured as a joke, if the word itself, or talking about tits makes anyone laugh I think it clearly shows some immaturity.

[@Magmafrost13]

Holy shit you actually came back to this topic after all these years

[@roycemeyer2391]

This is apparently parts 2-3 lol...

[@1schwererziehbar1]

I will now research this topic further ...

[@dalmationsgalor1546]

69 nice

[@randomalien7746]

@@dalmationsgalor1546 nice

[@jimmmyjohns2853]

We have a feddish for tits, thank me later

[@firefalcon9368]

I think the research will need a hands on approach to get the most accurate results. :P

[@proonguice8386]

Thanks...I just wasted 4 hours

[@GoErikTheRed]

Why women have breasts (part one): 4:48, back in June of 2013. Part two: April 2017, and over 33 minutes long. Never change, Lindy. Never change.

[@xxXthekevXxx]

I just saw part one a few weeks ago and was so disappointed there was no part 2. Saw this in my feed today and laughed a little. Leave it to Lloyd to wait 4 years to release the second part of a video 😂

[@proletariatpashka1956]

GoErikTheRed I literally spent hours scouring youtube but I could never find part 2. Well here we are.

[@JosephParker_Nottheboxer]

He got distracted talking about tanks, guns and history...

[@jeremietremblay6492]

If you are a woman, you might have more chances to mate if men can easily notice that you are a woman from the other side of the river (or the other side of the field).

[@AftermathRV]

But according to my over romanticized folks music tha ti listen to that doenst actually come from my culture, ALL women across the river are called katyusha!

[@pandakicker1]

This too. ~ A woman

[@DonnaBarrHerself]

Oh thank you - now I have that image in my head.

[@muurrarium9460]

... and now we have the opposite problem: randy guys anyhere and there is no getting away from them! It's generally not the females who want to mate all the time! Getting pregnant is a huge investement and takes its toll on the body, risking death-by-childbirth, and having to invest lost of reserves into keeping the offspring alive (after having it nesting like a parisite inside your body for 9 months) you are stuck with it for years! ...all makes a body go bankrupt very fast! A high price to pay for a few minutes (seconds?) of debatable fun.

[@Dan_Kanerva]

@@muurrarium9460 is not a price is a reward... you get to increase our numbers and reduce the chances of extintion . Basic biology rules

[@Mythodiir]

I always told my naliperous daughter; "Honey, get the best sperm". Parenting done right.

[@lievenmaselis9332]

she became a sperm bank?

[@howtubeable]

Well, that's better advice than telling a girl to have sex when she "falls in love."

[@xyzct]

I learned a new word.

[@xxportalxx.]

@@xyzct haha same

[@bittasweetsymphony726]

Its spelled Nulliparous, and it means women who has not had a baby. heres another word for you to learn, Paedomorphosis.

[@Stonemask5]

"He's sexy; He's the one I want"-Lindybeige, in reference to a peacock.

[@donna30044]

33:10 "Breasts a like nuclear missles..."! They can also be weapons of mass attraction.

[@johnnymellon7414]

yet here i am thinking that it's the milkshake that brings the boys to the yard... how foolish of me

[@Pletzmutz]

For a moment I thought you wanted us to imagine ourselves as a river: "If you are a Tigris". Took a while to realise that tigers are perhaps more conducive to explaining evolution.

[@simpleminded1uk]

I accidentally pictured myself as the Euphrates.

[@mitzara25]

hahaha

[@Marines_Memelevolent]

So many great quotes in this one. My favorite: “It seems that breasts...are like nuclear missiles”

[@sasiruvithanage3618]

Can you tell me where in the video that is?

[@4nd3rzzon]

@@sasiruvithanage3618its in the last seconds

[@ianjohnson4624]

How about the correlation between upright bipedal locomotion....ie breasts as substitute. 4 booty .as we came face 2 face cleavage. replaced rump

[@Manzikirt1]

I have a complementary theory to propose. Humans have a pretty long prepubescence and males wouldn't want to waste time and resources courting a female that wasn't fertile yet. But with stealth fertility it's hard to know when that is. Breasts (and other secondary sexual characteristics) are a way for women to advertise that they have reached the age of fertility without giving away specific ovulation periods.

[@gregborodin2768]

fertility is obvious most of women life.

[@manzell]

In hunter gatherer societies, menses isn't much of a secret (nor are widened hips, pubic hair, and other secondary sex characteristics). My pet theory is that it has something to do with weaning, such as the human ability to wetnurse, which could be important in small tribe arrangement in which amount of food available might vary drastically.

[@trequor]

Your nose should be able to tell you that well enough. I think that people have forgotten to use their sense of smell in our world of cleaning chemicals and perfume. You can absolutely smell when a woman is ovulating

[@johnarmstrong3782]

trequor My wife says it's me that smells.

[@QuantumRift]

Toys. They are toys.

[@patrickrayner2594]

not every man is a breast man Lloyd i think you're now obligated to make one about butts now

[@benrex7775]

LOL

[@zeiitgeist]

Patrick Rayner ifbhe is going down that path, he has to entertain the other fetishes.

[@jez9999]

I like both

[@migkillerphantom]

butts are really common as a sexual indicator in nature and easy to understand though

[@GuitarsRockForever]

he did make number of videos about penetrate French men...

[@onepant]

"She's 20 years old, but she's flat chested. The boys aren't coming to her yard."

[@proonguice8386]

Supposedly the milkshake will...I’ve been told

[@deadvodka]

@@proonguice8386 ..but stay the hell off my lawn!

[@SimbaBrank23]

@@proonguice8386 yeah, but if she has milkshakes she's probably infertile :D , as we learned

[@dlastriv1]

32:18

[@badusername9903]

@@SimbaBrank23 so she'll have to grow fake boobs instead ok this makes sense

[@HDxEXoThERMiA]

May I say I found the peacock mating digression very useful. Indead, next time I want to get laid I'll hang around the pub with a "Football fans are wankers" shirt on!

[@HDxEXoThERMiA]

Seriously though, as someone trying to write a story about animal people, these sorts of theories are very interesting.

[@J4NTT3R1]

"There is a small circle, inside a larger circle, inside a bigger circle" Best description of a tit I've heard.

[@SplendidFellow]

“Someone who has never had sex.” “You mean idiots?” Brutal man, brutal. Savage.

[@deussivenatura5805]

S. M. Henderson :(

[@ahmadtarek7763]

I guess I'm an idiot then, and a spectacular one at that.

[@D3w10n]

@@ahmadtarek7763 A long-term idiot? XD

[@mgaunard]

This is not considering one of the most important human traits: we stand on two feet. Buttocks being not displayed as prominently as in the other parts of the animal kingdom, humans evolved other round things to put on display on their chest.

[@TKTK-sw3tq]

Mathias Gaunard This was all true until the evolution of the yoga pants.

[@TKTK-sw3tq]

RPGStylee We have to be able to run fast.

[@BigBoss-sm9xj]

Mathias Gaunard is that from prison school?

[@cortster12]

Which is unfair, because it would have been awesome if women had plump vulvae.

[@IllidanS4]

So have I heard once, too.

[@brianshea2515]

You mention female Chimps (I think) having pink butts when in estrus (heat). It seems that most primates find butts to be a sexual attractor. When a Human is standing upright, their apparent butt size is reduced compared to when moving on four limb. There is a theory that Breast on a female mimic (to some extent) the sexual characteristics of the butt. How it came to be that females have breasts when not lactating is a mystery. You also didn't (seem to) mention that human female breasts do grow when then are nursing, and shrink again after they have stopped.

[@lerui2820]

I just watched a man explain me how breasts came to be. And I don't regret anything about it.

[@Hiraghm]

"How do they (humans) escape predation?" They kill the predator.

[@rjfaber1991]

Yes, and then they build an oil refinery in the late predator's habitat, just to rub it in...

[@Cooooaaaaacccccchhhh]

Humans aren't just predators. We're a global mass extinction event.

[@xxXthekevXxx]

Humans are the biggest danger to themselves.

[@Xaxp]

Well, yeah. We've gotten to the point so that the only other creature that can pose a threat to our survival as a species, is us. Frankly, I'm fine with it. Taking comfort in the knowledge that we are the most dangerous creature on earth.

[@NigelTolley]

Except the predator is usually, these days, another human. And the main predator of women is men. However, men are more likely to use violence on another man. Breasts? Breasts prevent that - it is strongly frowned upon to hit a woman. Breasts *immediately* tell you, the aggressor, not to kill that one, she'll be useful, but kill that one, he'll be a threat.

[@Aliyea]

I learned most of this information from a video talking about why the argonians from skyrim have breasts

[@Aliyea]

That video explains it better imo

[@dyingsun23]

That came up as a recommended video alongside this. Sad, KZbin has decided I'm interested in lizard boobs :(

[@Aliyea]

dyingsun23 ... you're not interested?

[@dyingsun23]

Guess I'm just not into green scaly skin :) Suppose some blue-haired twerp will come along and call me species-ist now :/

[@Aliyea]

dyingsun23 boobs are boobs in my book no matter who they're on lol

[@scitor]

"Permanent brests are like nuclear missles - if everyone else got them, you want them too"

[@rump438]

"no graphic imagery" but I'm watching you talk about the science of boobs.

[@epherium8177]

"imagery"

[@zappawench6048]

It's funny how the word "buxom" has come to mean large breasted, when originally it meant a lady was caring, loving and looked to her husband's comfort.

[@AtheistK47]

"So you have something to look at while they're talking to you" - Peter Griffin

[@joachimmurat400]

Special abilities: cooking...

[@deusvult6900]

Someone please make a video compilation of every time Lloyd says "ehhh"

[@KrypticWarrior2]

the chaotic hairstyle of lindy never gets old.

[@compendos]

WoW WoW WoW ! Did you just assume only women have breasts? I've been eating hamburgers and drinking beers all my life to maintaine my manbreasts ! They may not be functional, but they are as beautiful as any other pair. #equality #fightforourmanlybreasts

[@Shinaro777]

RPGStylee are there any other roman formations we can free while we are at it? #FreeTheManiple

[@Philosification]

He said nothing about man mammaries, he was only focusing on womenly wobblers, perhaps he'll focus on boy bumps rather than lady lumps next week.

[@thegoodlydragon7452]

compendos Did you just ASSUME that breasts are a feminine trait? Many women have facial hair and flat cheats, and they're every bit as sexy as a pig's bumhole! And men with big bouncy breasts are known to get the ladies cucking them. You sexist dirtbag!

[@Rosi_in_space]

moobs - sometimes bigger than boobs.

[@sushanalone]

Mine are bigger than Tommy Lahren's.

[@112BALAGE112]

This is exactly the type of video I need right now.

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

"Tap in the middle of the barrel".

[@djanitatiana]

"Crucible of pulchritude" !!? lol. Almost sprained a finger I subbed so fast upon hearing that

[@imageeknotanerd9897]

"offputting big wobbly things" Never before have I heard a more accurate description.

[@reelinandrockin9022]

I'm looking forward to the evolutionary breakdown of yoga pants.

[@al-imranadore1182]

Me too!!! I love looking at window with binoculars when there is a girls yoga class.

[@markwelschmeyer2426]

"the boys are't coming to her yard" lol

[@the_real_Kurt_Yarish]

I think a much more important question is why Lindy decided to make a video on breasts in the first place.

[@RandyKalff]

It's not even his first.

[@the_real_Kurt_Yarish]

Randy Kalff You're kidding me. I've only seen his history/military vids, where's this other fabled examination of breasts?

[@MrSamulai]

Lindy is analytical person. Lindy is a man. Men think about breasts. Hence: The video

[@billbuck3590]

Because he like them?

[@NotMeButAnother]

This is actually an essay he's had on his website for years, slightly touched up. He's been writing on evolutionary psychology for a long time.

[@Alexamenus]

this makes me feel like lindy is my dad and ime being given the talk again

[@MFvanBylandt]

A 33 minute video about why women have breasts? Only Lindybeige.

[@nealokelly]

I think you'll find that Darwin's "The Descent of Man" (see Parts II and III) was published 19 years before Fisher was born. Darwin might not have got around to figuring out sexual selection at the time of Origin. But he did get there. And considerably before Fisher.

[@adamtal7569]

Fisher-his window been banned now & hidden in storage!

[@the_real_Kurt_Yarish]

10:20 Yes, finally! I once spent a good half-hour arguing with some grad student online over this very topic! They were so convinced over this viewpoint that they actually believed I was diluted and lying to myself for thinking otherwise. Now I finally have closure! SUCK IT RANDOM PERSON​!

[@sonny19931]

"Now I finally have closure!" Dude, Lindy is not an anthropologist. I don't know anything about this topic, but I would probably trust the word of a grad student more than his. He often has interesting points, but has a tendency to trust his deduction a lot more than actual data and experts' analyses (his videos about linguistics are complete rubbish, for example)

[@the_real_Kurt_Yarish]

sonny19931 True, though my main problem with the grad student is that he used flawed reasoning and failed to provide adequate sources on his information. I can trust Lindy to do at least some research and provide information from credible sources. Perhaps he is wrong, but then again, perhaps he isn't.

[@James-sk4db]

As an undergrad student id have to say that I wouldn't trust what social scientist students say. They have a lot of trying to prove conclusions, and don't follow the scientific method

[@ScienceDiscoverer]

Lindie is right. Its obvious logic.

[@andrewclarke5989]

Do you mean diluted, or deluded?

[@Rodrat]

So he says we don't have a word for when a woman has never been pregnant. Well I found this. A "nulligravida" is a woman who has never been pregnant. A "primigravida" is a woman who is pregnant for the first time or has been pregnant one time. A "multigravida" or "secundigravida" is a woman who has been pregnant more than one time.

[@iateyursandwiches]

Correct. Lindybeige is definitely not an expert on medical and biological sciences so obviously don't take everything he says as fact. Generally, he is clear that most things on his channel are opinion anyway.

[@oOQwertyOo7]

I believe you have completely missed his point. When he made that comment, he meant to say that we don't have a word that is *commonly* and *frequently* used to refer to women who haven't been pregnant. Of course there is a scientific word for it, but we don't commonly use it and most people don't know about it. That suggests - which is the point Lloyd was trying to make - that our society seems to put more emphasis on virginity, the lack of sexual contact, rather than the fact that a woman has never been pregnant. He compared this state of things with those of other societies where people commonly discuss and identify women by stating, with one single term, whether she's been pregnant or not.

[@asmallphd9648]

or virgin

[@IosifStalinsendsyoutoGulag]

@@oOQwertyOo7 Well maybe that's because nowadays the fact that you don't have a child doesn't mean that you didn't have sex (thanks to contraceptives), whereas before the condom era a woman that had sex, almost automatically became pregnant. So in the second case the fact that she didn't become pregnant means most likely that she didn't have sex yet.

[@SoSoKayla]

@@IosifStalinsendsyoutoGulag "before the condom era a woman that had sex, almost automatically became pregnant" Did you fail sex-ed?

[@Shokuju]

"What I've just done is show that it's possible to..." Oh thank god. I thought he'd never say this.

[@AriadneJC]

As the owner of a pair of breasts and a research degree that relied on evolutionary theory, I approve of this video.

[@BigBoss-sm9xj]

Ariadne Chance ha awesome! keep doing what you're doing, my friend :P

[@SoulDelSol]

Ariadne Chance boobs! yay

[@WestTNConfed]

Ariadne Chance Can you show me them?

[@Rosi_in_space]

You want to see her diplomas ?

[@SoulDelSol]

I almost was tricked again! Dammit

[@Sauer_Kraut]

I just finished watching Kingdom of Heaven and thinking that a film review from Lindybeige would be interesting.

[@chriswarburton-brown7858]

Cows' primary defence versus predators isn't running away, it's forming a defensive circle. So they too can afford to have bigger udders than other animals.

[@roycemeyer2391]

Bonk has got to be the best euphemism I've heard all day

[@waylandwalace3302]

basically 30 minutes to say Flat is justice right lindy? xD

[@BigBoss-sm9xj]

Wayland Walace a very subtle way of telling his fans at he watches anime

[@yellowfolder]

Wow, 0:10 to 0:23 is easily the most profound thing I've ever heard. Life-changing, in fact! I'm off to help the world!

[@claytonkrumm143]

~5:30 A Tigris cannot, but what about a Euphrate? Also, who keeps thinking of another EEA when he says the EEA?

[@rjfaber1991]

Me. I'm constantly internally going "Women in the European Economic Area? What's that got to do with it?" before realising he's talking about the Pleistocene again. I'd also make a joke about 52% of Brits prefering the Pleistocene to the European Economic Area, but that might be a bit crude to the 48% of sensible people in that country...

[@brizekaratedan]

How did I not realise that Gattaca is so named because of GATC? I'm learnding.

[@robertsroberts1688]

Dan James Simpsons fan spotted!

[@brizekaratedan]

Eat my shorts!

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

dun dun DUNNNNNNN! _closeup intensifies_

[@jacoblewis3148]

i agree with your theory but i think your theory isn't the primary reason why they evolved. I speculate that it is because of how tribal humans are, with multiple families living and raising young together. Therefore, women who retained their breasts would've had the ability to feed the young of women in the tribe who were unable to produce sufficient milk. Therefore, tribes with a greater proportion of women with permanent breasts would've had a greater number of their offspring survive, and those genes wouldve been passed on in greater numbers

[@maxsnts]

But permanent breasts are not always lactating and therefore would not be an advantage in your hypothesis.

[@ShellPrestoDiBaggio]

@@maxsnts It's not uncommon for childless women to start lactating if they have repeated exposure to a suckling infant. It takes a while, so, for instance, a newborn would likely starve if given to a childless mother, but an older baby who can stand to go a bit longer on less food may survive if given to a childless mother until she develops a milk supply.

[@Fankas2000]

@@maxsnts "But permanent breasts are not always lactating" Because modern women have like 1,5 kids in their entire lives.

[@Hashishtani]

No it doesn't work like that, it's known that women with small breast lactating their babies not worse than than women with large breast, it doesn't have anything to do with lactation. It's about local culture and sexual preferences.

[@jodyfields9089]

I agree... Cows will accept orphan calves when sometimes another cow doesnt produce enough milk or refuses to breast feed for other reasons. Makes sense to me.

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

I've wondered why Apes and other mammals have small breasts, only slightly larger when caring for young, but human females mostly have very large breasts, even Dolly Parton sized, even when not rearing young. This really doesn't seem logical.

[@Arianddu]

Something to consider about a limiter on breast size - big breasts *hurt*. Continuous back and neck pain, which can trigger migraines as well, impacts on general health. Larger breasts do also make breast feeding harder from an upright position, so again, there is an evolutionary pressure limiting breast size.

[@BigBoss-sm9xj]

Arianddu very true

[@6272355463637]

Plus the nutritional need to sustain them and the difficulty to move them - we're talking about pre-agricultural and potentially (semi-)nomadic people (and if not, women still had to walk around a lot in the gatherer role) in the EEA.

[@iota-09]

and also overly large breast can go a bit over the uncanny valley... then again, that can change with time and evolution.

[@simonschaller857]

The first that came in my mind when i saw this title was Why do men dont have breasts? How many babies starved in the past because they lost their mother Menbreasts could be a huga advantage

[@lokitus]

Wonderful! Now explain why middle-aged men have breasts.

[@aewhatever]

Got him there

[@SimicFishCrab]

27:35 This is a lot funnier when you realize "spreading his genes" = "bonking"

[@douglasfulmer5483]

"You're in there!" - Lindybeige 2017

[@nesa1126]

Hey, I did not watched this video yet. But before i forget, there is part of book ("rise and fall of third chimpanzee" by Jared Diamond) where he address this question so it could be interesting for you. Actually whole book could be interesting because it is about history of humans

[@EndlessVacuum]

Is this from that question book? That's really weird.

[@alihaider2853]

EndlessVacuum nope, this is a part 2 to a really old video

[@joanperez4818]

this rambligs are worth all the money in the world, they doesn't need to be completelly accurate, just shows how entertaining and usefull rambling about things can be, you just need to be courious I think. Keep this awesome videos up lindybeige, there is many things that haven't been explained yet, and I'll wait for you to do it !

[@MrSamulai]

30:24 I don't find unnaturally sized, surgical breasts sexy and neither does any man/woman I've ever talked with about the subject. I mean they do get my attention, but more because I find them grotesque rather than sexy. Is there something I should know? Yes, there's a fetish for everything, but what about the majority of us?

[@lindybeige]

That it is a sexual trait explains both the variation of the breasts and the variation in men's preferences. If all men like a certain thing above all in women, then this creates a niche for men who like the other sorts of women available.

[@Syerjchep]

That and a lot of surgically enhanced breasts tend to be uncanny because the surgery is imperfect.

[@SoulDelSol]

Syerjchep yes too round. they look same with bra but without they don't have that teardrop side view shape

[@99onone50]

this entire video is just him explaining why flat is justice🤔

[@brianknezevich9894]

This is probably my favorite KZbin video.Okay, it IS. AWESOME, Lloyd!!

[@fsmoura]

~ B E W B S ~

[@alasdeangel3929]

~ B L E W B S ~ 🙃🙃🙃

[@zombiedude347]

5318008

[@annunakim525]

nothing sexier than ankles...

[@DoomZoone]

This has probably been one of the best videos i've seen on the internet!

[@jaaksootak318]

Will there be a part 2? I don't think this was enough.

[@forsetigodofjusticeexcelle7506]

"Why do women have the other breast?"

[@if3660]

This is part 2, the first part was about 3 years ago.

[@jaaksootak318]

Then the 3rd part

[@Hassenboy]

Why do women have butts?

[@if3660]

Jaak Sootak give him another 3 years, you'll probably get a part 2 to the fire arrows video in the meantime.

[@Joshml98]

"so how do women escape predation" why does this sound funnier than it is.

[@MrCmon113]

Because we don't think of ourselves as potential prey.

[@Min-xm8tp]

Just look at those "EXTREMELY LARGE FRONTAL ENCUMBRANCES" on that 'Chick' over there! Yep, I'm having that! Ta very much Lloyd..By jove, you've come up Trumps again Old Bean!

[@kaungsithusett9017]

Men wear these (relatively) flashy slipknots around their necks so that people know that they are powerful?

[@janwilson9485]

No just idiots

[@CprlTeaman]

I never want to hear Lindy say the word ‘sexy’ so much ever again lmao

[@kyokazuto]

KZbin why are you recommending me this...

[@JoelDiez]

I have never heard such a complex speech about milkers before

[@Tallmios]

The way you say "sexy"...can be kinda sexy.

[@alexadame7389]

Lindybeige I would like to see Richard Dawkins comment on this

[@scottolson1105]

"Look at the jugs on that one mate" Richard Dawkins from the time he hit puberty till present.

[@guilhermegoldman]

"That's a really good peacock"-Lindybeige 2017

[@lyngs]

Breasts evolved to serve a purpose and they do (did), just like the peacocks tail, it tells wether or not you are well fed and have a good immune system. Breasts are made up of fatty tissue, and the more weight a woman gains, the larger her breasts grow. They serve the same function as a Camel's humps. That is why big breasts are "more" sexy. It shows Health and survivalbility. That also explains why breat size, in general, is larger the further you get from equator, where food is harder to come by in Winter. Having large breasts, or being able to grow large breasts when gaining weight during the summer, is a HUGE advantage, and THAT is sexy. Sorry for my bad English and sentense structure.

[@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447]

Though there were minor grammatical and spelling errors, your point came across very well. No need to apologize if you can type well enough.

[@fredrickaappletree3402]

lyngsdk .....more fat generally on the body = bigger breasts not true though.... lots of thin/skinny/slim women have large breasts....and lots of fat /overweight /plump women have small breasts.... and the other way round....no need to apologise for your English you got your point over clearly. Just wondering do camels use their humps to feed their babies? I thought camels were Mammals and used their mammaries to feed their babies.

[@lyngs]

@Carol Ann Zilla Your statement does not make mine less true. A skinny girl with large breasts, when gaining weight, will get larger breasts. Same goes for a Overweight girl with small breasts. When she takes on more weight, so will her breasts and if she Looses weight so does her breasts. How much your breast size relates to your body fat index, depends on genetics, but is is a factor for all women. Of cause Camels dont use their hump(s) directly when feeding their calf. But if there is no "fuel" in the hump(s) there wont be any milk either.

[@fredrickaappletree3402]

lyngsdk .....no not true not all people put weight on evenly some put weight just round their hips or thighs or waists, so some ladies can lose weight and their boobs stay the same size. Thanks for replying though it is an interesting subject worth debate. The camels I was only teasing you for a you know a joke you made it sound like the humps were there for the baby camels :). Not having a go at you :) it's true some ladies do get bigger boobs with weight gain but not all. Have a nice night and happy boob watching. Btw it's "of course" not of cause, which would be for example, the "cause" of the accident but good English skills anyway.

[@Romulus_Wolf]

Had no idea regarding that stuff about cows. Zero.

[@Inquisitor_Vex]

WHY HAVE I ONLY SEEN THIS NOW?!

[@davecrystal9790]

Thank you for keeping me abreast on this topic.

[@hamishfyfe6876]

well, this is in my search history now

[@KnaufL]

It's for us simple men to have something to look at.

[@lawka2699]

@Lindybeige It's scary how quickly our modern thoughts and preferences change with new medications, supplements and injections coming out on every market, every year. Your video made me realize how rapidly these new modifications and the conversations surrounding them shift or change. Certain sound-thought-theories are being backpeddled by these new developments, and I would love to hear your thought process on the effects all this has. In case you aren't familiar, here's the standard youth in Suburban North America: Now teenage girls can grow pseudo-fertile ta-ta's and use these for all the profile and status you'd think an 18 y/o camgirl to expect. I'm talking about making fake IDs more believable; posting anonymous underage porn ripped straight off of snapchat (ever heard of snapchat-PHANTOM? your anonymity is a lie and a joke for Phantom users) and WAY more Romeo & Juliet relationships struggling to make us think this is all cool. No, not the pizza presenting pedophiles. I mean sugardaddies, drug dealers and older peers who lowered their bar or wanted something easier to control. The biggest allure for any of these type of 'men' in the underage females' eye is the access these older men can provide free or nearly free birth control-- used for tricking female hormones so that he doesn't have to wear a rubber, and she gets to bloom earlier than her school friends. It's a mutual relationship which is surprisingly more common in females. Maybe not as surprising since their relationship is easier to conceal, thanks to the ability to pose as a mother. You could say this is the fault of the medical system for allowing free birth control for youth. Maybe you could blame the medication for not being controlled enough, or perhaps having unnecessary effects. I would argue them to be undesirable effects, for the reasons mentioned before. Teens think they don't need plastic surgery when they can trick their body into growing a greater curve. More food for thought... Naturally, MBLA (yes, manboylove-association) has tried to point out a cultural shift in "younger love being more and more prominent in our society every day" probably because they're jealous of the universal desire for boobs. Beyond that, nurturing the cultural obsession with reaching these newly enabled heights of bodily maturity has come to a true head in our youth as a supposed 'mental health crisis'. Hormone Heroes swept into our television and media with boys trying to grow boobs and girls trying to prevent their from coming in. These are meant to be inspiring antagonists. Can you believe that? All this nutty crap weighs in from both sides and becomes translated as 'mental disease' when filtered through children. One side is preaching that you can be whoever or whatever you want to be. While the other preaches peace of mind after death-- except for those who break the norm. They get to burn in hell for eternity. Talk about pressure. Yet, the pressure and trauma actually come from the fanatics who uphold these beliefs on either side; not the actual ideas of the beliefs. And thus our 'advanced' societies have become inhospitable war-grounds fought on the planes of thought, only spills into reality when someone reaches a breaking point. But anyways, mis-prescribed birth control was the first body modification method to be popularized by our modern youth. And it's remained relatively incognito for some reason, while serving as the gateway to what's referred to by some as the LGBTQ crisis and others as the anti-depressants crisis, or even the simple mental health of youth crisis. Thanks to our wild variety of divided parties, we can't even agree on a name let alone begin to start discussing how to address the issues at hand. I'd love your speculation about how this came to be, Lindy. I personally believe this could all be from one of two options. 1. Societal warfare imposed by 'enemies' of some kind 2. A labyrinth of government issues allowing pharma to decide they'd profit on this new phenomenon. We need our classic, god-given boobs back. I can't believe I'm saying this, but if we averagesd size A... crime stats would probably decrease concerning minor-involved crimes, both victims and perps

[@louislouie5037]

Well now I won't be able to hear about taps or barrels with out becoming aroused, thanks Lindy.

[@vladimirdan1959]

"Look at those fucking tits,mate!I just want to go wooble-wooble with my face between them!" "Mate,those aren't tits...*sighs*...They're barrels...

[@ancientfungi7818]

This Video is such a clickbait and Im gonna enjoy every minute of Oy.

[@graceygrumble]

I have to have a mammogram at 4pm, today. So, this question is at the forefront of my mind, right now.

[@UncleCloud]

It's interesting how your thought process led you to the cuckolding hypothesis as the most suitable one. I imagine there's another possibility, related to male reproductive organ anatomy and good old tradition of... group reproductive activities without much care for consent. It could be that indicating non-fertility drastically lowered such encounters and gave females additional control over who's gonna be daddy.

[@00Trademark00]

I think that this is not very likely. The reason for that is that the chances of a random sexual encounter resulting in pregnancy are rather low and it usually takes several weeks of a sexual relationship to produce an offspring (this is also at least a part of the reason for male sexual choice - successfully producing an offspring requires some amount of commitment even for men and even if they don't look after the child at all, which means they will also discriminate between women and how much attention they pay to each of them, which means that the women have to compete for men as well as men have to compete for women). Since women aren't ovulating openly, even if they only have breasts when they're infertile, you still don't know that they are fertile when they don't have them. Also, we are talking about an era when people lived in small tribes and rape would not very likely be tolerated. Chimpanzees who try to do that are either beaten up by the female herself, her female friends or another male (the females protect each other and the male is either the alpha male who wants to prevent sexual access of other males to females one way or another or he might simply be trying to get a favour of the female or her friends - chimps have fairly complex relationships which one might even call "politics" with not too much exaggeration). There is essentially no privacy and very little secluded space in such an environment, so the rapist has to attack the woman in a close proximity of others who will help her and the rapist is likely going to be punished. Rape might happen when an enemy tribe attacks yours but I doubt the increased chance of not being raped then is in itself enough to outweigh the costs of permanent breasts. Especially since when the other tribe attacks and all your warriors are killed or subdued you will likely either be killed or enslaved anyway. Incidentally, the difficulty of rape in such a society might be why in some cultures today (and most cultures until fairly recently) it is the rape victim who is often blamed - it sort of makes sense in the prehistoric society where it is much more likely that the rape was not really a rape but simple infidelity instead. Of course, it backfires horribly in a more modern environment, but as long as that is partly hard-coded that might be part of the reason for why this attitude is harder to uproot than it should be.

[@00Trademark00]

If you had a bunch of men going around and raping women as their reproductive strategy, you'd have big shifts in the society in general. I would expect something like what you observe in lions. A group of lionesses essentially chooses one lion to both be the father of their cubs as well as help them protect the cubs from other lions (who otherwise kill all the cubs to make sure the cubs are theirs...very rarely do you see more than one male lion in a group and then those are usually siblings, which means they have some evolutionary interest to see the brother's cubs survive as well). This is what you'd probably see in this case. I don't know of any animals where something akin to rape is a common way of spreading genes, in one way or another the females tend to choose and sometimes (such as in humans) the males do so too. Some species are harem animals like the lions (or sea lions) but even there the position of the alpha male can be either indirectly seen as female choice (the strongest male wins) or in smarter species, it is at least in party literally a female choice. In chimp groups, the alpha female is often the "kingmaker", she has the influence over other females and their support can mean that an otherwise weaker (but more socially apt and nicer to the females, or simply good at 'politics') male can maintain the position of the alpha for a very long time even at a presence of another physically superiour male. The Frans de Wall's book "Chimpanzee politics" is a fascinating read about the topic. In the observed group, there was a long term alpha male who managed to keep his position and keep the youngsters out mostly because he was smarter and perhaps wiser than the young guys. essentially, he managed to pit one against the other while keeping very good relationships with the alpha female. Eventually he grew too old and the new alpha that emerged was really bad at the politics, was aggressive and would not actually protect the females from other males (which is also partly his job) who were sometimes aggressive (and sometimes it seemed that they were aggressive on purpose to create this divide between the alpha males and the females- one would attack the females while the other would keep the alpha male busy), eventually the females decided that enough is enough and helped another chimp to replace him.

[@UncleCloud]

I'm glad that my comment provided you with an opportunity for you to show off your female studies degree and write an essay on a book you've read recently. But you missed quite a simple point of human ancestors being different and how that difference influenced modern human to some extend on top of making a few questionable claims.

[@00Trademark00]

@UncleCloud: I'm not quite sure what your point is when you say that "human ancestors were different".

[@UncleCloud]

I just don't believe that behavior of an artificial chimpanzee group in artificial environment is an indication of behavior in ancient human collectives, or really an indication of anything. I don't see how it refutes my little theory based on males having a peculiar penis shape and females evolving into having a fake infertility signs at all times. While we're at it, you shouldn't spend time here writing long winded comments. You've got many lakes to visit and lots of conversation with female ducks to be had, explaining them how forceful procreation attempts shouldn't influence shape of their reproductive organs, and many small "don't blame the victim" signs to be handed out.

[@born2thrilll]

I went from a video about siege warfare. To a video about ww2 u-boats.. to a video about why women have breasts. Your channel is incredible!

[@aewhatever]

It is quite diverse