# Female human beauty

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-human-beauty/4875>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 17, 1999, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-human-beauty/4875 "1999-11-17T03:57:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-human-beauty/4875/21 "2001-06-16T20:26:03Z")

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I’m bumping this one because it may have applicability to subjects currently under discussion on other threads.

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**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2001, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-human-beauty/4875/22 "2001-06-17T06:44:09Z")

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Well, since it’s here, I’ll mention that the chest as a genital-area mimic is seen in other primates, most notably the [Gelada Baboon:](http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/factsheets/theropithecus_gelada.html)

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> On the chest of both sexes are hairless patches of skin that are heart shaped in males and hourglass shaped in females. Surrounding this skin are bumps of skin that swell up for the female  
> during estrus. This area on the chest mimics the sexual skin during estrus probably because since the gelada baboon sits for long periods while it forages for food, the male would have a difficult time seeing the perineum.

So the idea of breasts imitating the buttock (perineal) area on humans isn’t so farfetched.

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