Thread 509895287

Humans evolved to retain juvenile features of our ancestors longer into development (paedomorphosis). This means that neoteny has been selected FOR in human evolution.

Now we’re struggling with the dissonance between evolved attraction to youthful traits and modern cultural mores.

Stop trying to rationalize your attraction to toddlers

>>509895370
You’re playing a never ending game of whac a mole. I’m just telling you the reason why it won’t end.

Or a protruding jaw with huge teeth was just less necessary once we learned how to cook and use tools, obviating the need to tear flesh and use it as a weapon

>>509895287 (OP)
It has everything to do with delayed development and sexual maturation being conducive to learning, knowledge retention and cognitive plasticity. It plays into the biological strategy of the genus homo when our neotenic cranial shape began to emerge.

>>509895863
This as well

>>509895370
This. Rope yourself OP

>>509895287 (OP)
I always figured pedophilia is a lot more common than people let on.

>>509895863
>>509895893
Yeah but we got flat, rounder faces that go into adulthood tho.

>>509896041
The face becomes flatter as the frontal becomes larger and the facial bones become more gracile as chewing hard food items becomes less relevant for fitness with the introduction of stone tools and later fire

>>509895863
Also how would this work in nature btw? Like I get we didn’t need the sharp teeth but that means chimps need to select mates based on less developed features no? It’s not like you just respec in a game

>>509896041
>I always figured pedophilia is a lot more common than people let on.
I'd estimate 90% of people are ephebophiles, 50% hebephiles, 5-10% pedophiles

>>509896396
Can you see this >>509896554

>>509896618
Yes that’s what along with what I think but pedos could be anywhere from 1-10% if we split up the categories like that. Then teens is much larger

>>509895287 (OP)
evolution is a jewish myth

>>509895287 (OP)
>paedomorphosis
combine this with amerimorphosis and you get the ultimate human form

>>509896041
Pedophilia has lost all it's meaning. You will be labeled as one if you find women who can clearly already bear children attractive if they're under the local legal age.

>>509896927
pedophilia is and always will be attraction to PRE-pubertal girls, simple as.
No matter what braindead americans say, being attracted to girls in puberty who literally just reached peak fertity is completely normal

>>509896554
>>509896622
Sorry fren your question is a little lost on me, but I think what you're asking is what were the actual selective pressures that reduced facial robusticity? Evolutionarily speaking, once a species doesn't make significant use of a trait, or the trait is no longer adaptive for their fitness, over generations they will lose that trait. The powerful chewing muscles, the building of larger teeth with dense enamel (in the case of Australopithecus and other earlier hominins) the growth of large facial bones, these are all energetically costly. If the trait isn't being used, it's not adaptive to waste energy maintaining it and as a result it begins to disappear. Large mastication prowess was no longer contributing to species fitness post tools and fire, thus over time it became reduced and that caloric expenditure was used elsewhere. This is then compounded by the fact that as food processing (especially the use of fire 1mya) allowed for a greater surplus of energy, suddenly the genus homo could begin selecting for the extremely energetically costly neurological adaptations (the expansion of the brain) so as the frontal bone expanded outwards, the face was also being reduced inwards to the point where our faces are now positioned underneath our cranium.