Evolutionary psychology studies show that big butts are more attractive. The theory is based on the idea that a bigger butt looks like a woman holding her body at a certain angle, which would have been adaptive in ancient times. Scientists were looking for ways to categorize humans racially and one of the categories they used was size of butt. They equated big buttedness with african women and hypersexuality.
Once upon a time, there were no anuses. These ingenious organs allowed our primordial ancestors to grow bigger and more complex, but scientists still don’t understand how they evolved. And they’re still grasping at a mystery that literally surrounds it: Why is the human butt so big?
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