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EurekAlert have just published an article: Yale researchers shed light on evolutionary mystery: Origins of the female orgasm
The role of female orgasm, which plays no obvious role in human reproduction, has intrigued scholars as far back as Aristotle. Numerous theories have tried to explain the origins of the trait, but most have concentrated on its role in human and primate biology.
[...] Since there is no apparent association between orgasm and number of offspring or successful reproduction in humans, the scientists focused on a specific physiological trait that accompanies human female orgasm -- the neuro-endocrine discharge of prolactin and oxytocin -- and looked for this activity in other placental mammals. They found that in many mammals this reflex plays a role in ovulation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2016, @07:13PM
Women are evolved to have successful offspring.
To omit even the possibility of deception from the matrix is just as idiotic, you twit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2016, @08:21PM
The idiocy here is the reductivist thinking that "evolution" defines such high-level cognitive functions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2016, @03:03AM
Not having a signal like an ass that is bright red during ovulation hardly qualifies as a cognitive function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2016, @12:17PM
non-sequitor logic proves my point