# Shape Of You

The Chauvet cave in France has some artifacts from the forgotten time. Most of those artifacts are sculptures of animals but two of them are of humans. Human female – with huge hips and breasts. I was not surprised to see women in such a manner. The beauty standard of human body has changed many a times throughout the human civilization. But most of our known history – our ancestors kept themselves busy with finding foods. To them, prosperity and fertility was naturally associated with the ability to find or produce food.

[source](https://www.flickr.com/photos/laurent-lenotre/25168812265/)

A woman's fertility and ability to give birth and raise children were viewed in terms of their physical bulkiness. More the merrier. Larger hips and breasts, so to speak. This is why male humans are still attracted to female breasts and hips. This is logical from an evolutionary perspective too. Every human being has the animal instinct of producing offsprings and passing down genes. So they're likely to choose a woman who can avail them that. This idea was still predominant even in Victorian era. Of course, today it is unthinkable to consider women as baby factories, but also let us inspect the other side of this spectrum. For a man, overweight body with a huge belly bod was an indicator of wealth and power, and women found that attractive. To secure her offspring's safe growth. This is why alpha males in the wild have a bigger chance of mating.

So when you see women clinging to successful wealthy men, or men objectifying women for their physical appearance–blame some portion of it on evolution! And those cave artifacts from 32000 years ago should lean the reasoning that way.

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