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Ear Lobes
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Earlobes are there for the sole reason of enabling parents/teachers to guide naughty children to where they don't want to go.
Then again.... it could be to detect the lower frequency sound and guide it to the ear channel.
As a matter of interest, the famous anthropologist, Desmond Morris - who wrote 'The Naked Ape' etc - concluded that breasts, as such, did not start to appear in humans until face-to-face mating appeared on the scene. He concluded that they were quite possibly a mirror-image, so to speak, of the buttocks. These had been the centre of male attention until then, he felt, just as they still are in monkeys etc now. Breasts were just another two rounded and fondleable protuberances to attract prehistoric man. In other words, they really were for male pleasure!
These are his expert views, not mine, so I wonder what you two think the original function of breasts was, given that they are quite unnecessary for successful suckling of young.
Of course, breasts - as you say at 'b' - are a source of pleasure to their owner. Mikewall said as much in the very first answer here...I'm not sure why you assumed his use of the word 'our' somehow excluded women. I took it to mean "mankind's"....not just "the male's".
The fact remains that the only scientific explanation offered for the original appearance of human breasts, as such, that I have ever seen is Morris's. (There are no grounds to believe him to be 'blinkered', so far as I am aware.)
If you insist on referring to our earlier spat, let's remember that it was your assault on my answer that set it off! I had responded to a third party's question with a perfectly correct answer and you told everyone that you didn't like it.
This question and all its responses will be off the category's Page 1 shortly, so let's just leave it in oblivion, shall we? I'll try to remember in future not to answer anything you've already posted to. That way we can simply avoid each other. It would be nice if you were to extend me the same courtesy.
We've made peace once before, so let's do that again. I'll promise not to ask for explanations you're reluctant to provide, if you promise not to get annoyed...OK? Pax!