Subjects: Anthropology & Cultural Studies: North America, General Interest, Philosophy: Other: Breast Implants and Examples of Bad Design, What Bad Boob Jobs Tell us about how Evolution Works

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Breast Implants and Examples of Bad Design, What Bad Boob Jobs Tell us about how Evolution Works

By: Laura (0)

Level: College Date: 2/23/06

Subjects: Anthropology & Cultural Studies: North America, General Interest, Philosophy: Other

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Arguing that breast augmentation can be used as a model for design flaws in other animals, as humans choose to put something cumbersome on their body to attract a mate in the same way that a Peacock has a ridiculous tail to attract a mate.

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Title: Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
Type of source: Book: In Print
Author(s): Frans De Waal
Year of publication: 2005

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Title: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Type of source: Book: In Print
Author(s): Stephen Jay Gould
Year of publication: 1980

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Title: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Type of source: Book: In Print
Author(s): Stephen Jay Gould
Year of publication: 1980

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Title: Sex, Sensibility and the Gendered Body: Breast Feeding and the Social Construction of Heterosexuality, or 'What Breasts are Really for"
Type of source: Anthology: In Print
Author(s): Lisa Adkins, Janet Holland, Pam Carter
Year of publication: 1996

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Title: The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body
Type of source: Book: In Print
Author(s): Desmond Morris
Year of publication: 2004
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Title: My Family Album: Thirty Years of Primate Photography
Type of source: Book: In Print
Author(s): Franz De Waal
Year of publication: 2003

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