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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">Dear Steve,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">Thank you for your quick response, your
careful
reading, and encouraging comments with which, including the more
critical ones,
I may fully agree. You raised a number of non-trivial points.
However, I cannot
provide any rigorous proofs you are asking for, but merely a
“scaffolding”
working hypothesis. In the Spanish film “Jamon, jamon” the girl
is asking her
boyfriends why they do what they do with her body. In fact, the
boys had no
idea except that they just enjoyed doing that. I guess that most
men all over
the world instinctively share their kind of behaviour,
suggesting that this is
commonly inherited from a distant past. In my narrative and
related paper, I
just speculate from where such courtship habits may have
originated, apparently
being encoded in our genes. It is habit of use that specifies
the meaning of
arbitrary symbols, as already Charles Peirce had emphasised.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">(i)<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">It is correct that my
suggested scenario is a succession of critical turnarounds, so
that the entire
staircase will break down as soon as a single step underway is
missed. No step
appears plausible without the preceding one, each step does not
solve the
problem but urgently requires the next step until some final
one. This is
intentionally so rather than representing a deficiency of the
model. Fossils
have shown that hominin evolution in the past several million
years was a tree
with numerous branches of which virtually all disappeared except
our direct
ancestors. Low reproduction rate is a crucial selective value;
hominins that
failed to find the next step of the staircase suffered from
subcritical
reproduction rates and got extinct. Likely, only one line
successfully managed
the entire risky parcours, starting at challenging bipedalism
and ending at
safe surplus multiplication with emigration pressure: our
ancestors. No
stagnant survival possible in between, so the idea that violent
selective
pressure enforced the (necessarily speedy) evident hominin
sexual revolution
(rather than gradual sexual selection).</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">(ii)<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">I prefer to argue that
any
kind of information may be classified into either “structural
information” or
“symbolic information”. Any form of physical interaction
necessarily transfers
structural information between the interacting objects, without
purpose, predictive
intention or the need of symbols. Looking into the sky, the
light of a star carries
structural information that arrives at our eye. Our sensor cells
convert this
structural information into symbolic information in a
“symbolisation” process: representative
standard nerve pulses as symbols are generated, communicated,
stored and
processed with purpose and intention. By natural evolution,
symbolic
information emerged from the structural one by “ritualisation”
transitions. Shannon
entropy refers to symbolic information, Pauling entropy to
structural
information. More details at, say, “Self-Organisation of
Prediction Models”, <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.3390/e25121596__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!TmF4lJQQcFFNFN9zh1E5coecSZrIeYlSi0nPgVRsMtY7svqlLkADN-38MGVEnqQa51pmrPf0HrdeEvbVgQLKtE9nyB4$" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://doi.org/10.3390/e25121596</a></span>
, and “Emergence of Symbolic Information by the Ritualisation
Transition”, <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813109001_0004__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!TmF4lJQQcFFNFN9zh1E5coecSZrIeYlSi0nPgVRsMtY7svqlLkADN-38MGVEnqQa51pmrPf0HrdeEvbVgQLKQYbCZQU$" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813109001_0004</a></span>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">(iii)<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">“Alternative
hypotheses—fat storage
byproduct, honest signal of reproductive value, sexual
selection, pair-bond
reinforcement”: May or may not be so. Common but vague and
unspecific
arguments. If so, why do not chimp females exploit sexy breasts?
By contrast,
my argument applies specifically to coercive mating of hominins.
And to mammary
glands only. And supports contraception in order to protect
toddlers after
weaning. It even explains, in the subsequent step, the
mysterious, cumbersome
sexual interest of men in female nipples.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
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lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">(iv)<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">“deceptive signals are
often
evolutionarily unstable”, and so also here, as all the steps of
the chain of
transitions are unstable and are dynamically replaced by their
particular
following step. The lactation fake by adipose breast will sooner
or later be
revealed by the next move of male behaviour: inspecting breast
and nipples
visually, manually or orally.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
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lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">(v)<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">There is little doubt
that contraception
implies futile ovulation and menstruation instead of pregnancy.
For the
menopause, I have borrowed the ovary exhaustion argument from </span><span
lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Wallace and Kelsey
(2010), <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008772__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!TmF4lJQQcFFNFN9zh1E5coecSZrIeYlSi0nPgVRsMtY7svqlLkADN-38MGVEnqQa51pmrPf0HrdeEvbVgQLKgdLs5yc$" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008772</a>
</span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">. It does not only support the
grandmother
hypothesis, it may also explain why humans find young females
sexy, quite in
contrast to chimps who typically ignore young females. As far as
I know, chimps
have post-reproductive lives typically in captivity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;
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lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">(vi)<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">Subcritical
reproduction rates
result from early weaning of mothers with their sole
responsibility for the
helpless offspring during childhood. To overcome this, other
group members
(preferably females such as sisters or mothers) must assist in
childcare when
the mother gives another birth too early. I prefer menopause and
infertile
grandmothers as plausible candidates, produced by preceding
contraception and
regular menstruation. I do not believe that male chimps, as had
elsewhere been
suggested, which neither know about their paternity nor are
involved in any
childcare, suddenly turn into caring fathers who even
voluntarily refrain from sex
with the fertile attractive mother after weaning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;
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lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">(vii)<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">Proper investigation of
human
sexual behaviour is far beyond my expertise. I merely review the
published sex
life of chimps from a special perspective. I just imagine a
fictitious scenario
of the effect of bipedalism on the reproduction behaviour of
earliest hominins,
and the hypothetical emergence of novel sex symbols as a
consequence. Even this
seems to appear, though, already as politically provocative to
radical
feminists.</span></p>
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style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;
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text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">(viii)<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">I believe that my
narrative is
rather distinct from the typical approaches in the anthropogenic
literature,
such as sexual selection that gently transformed wild chimp
hordes into
harmonic mother-father-child families. I am convinced that
hominins were often
at the brink of extinction. Radical changes of reproduction (and
other)
behaviour went along with frequent population bottlenecks and
enforced
evolutionary progress at high speed. In order to support or
disprove my model, it
may hopefully inspire experts of the various fields involved to
take a
different look at their facts and models.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">Rainer </span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"> </span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht
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mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">Re: [Fis] Emergence of Human Sexual
Behaviour</span></p>
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12 Feb 2026 11:40:27 +0000</span></p>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family:
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style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">Steve Watson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sw10014@cam.ac.uk"><sw10014@cam.ac.uk></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:right;line-height:normal"><b><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
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mso-fareast-language:DE">An: </span></b></p>
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normal"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-language:DE">Rainer
Feistel (IOW) <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rainer.feistel@iow.de"><rainer.feistel@iow.de></a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es">fis@listas.unizar.es</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es"><fis@listas.unizar.es></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-language:DE"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">Dear Rainer</span><span
lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">Thank you for
initiating this
stimulating discussion. Your narrative on the emergence of human
sexual
behaviour is ambitious in scope and admirable in its integrative
intent. By
placing ritualisation at the centre of symbolic emergence and
embedding human
sexuality within a biosemiotic framework, you invite precisely
the kind of
cross-disciplinary dialogue that Foundations of Information
Science aims to
foster.</span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">I would like to offer
several
reflections, structured around (1) the conceptual strength of
your approach,
(2) empirical considerations, and (3) theoretical implications
concerning
information and symbol formation.</span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">First, regarding
ritualisation
as a mechanism of symbol emergence: your use of
ritualisation—following Julian
Huxley’s ethological work—as a transition from use-activity to
signal-activity
is theoretically compelling. This move situates symbolic forms
not as sudden
inventions, but as emergent transformations of already
functional behaviours.
Symbols, in this view, crystallise from repeated behavioural
coordinations under
selective pressures. That conceptual continuity between
biological function and
informational form is one of the strongest elements of your
argument.</span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">Applying this mechanism
to
human courtship behaviour—especially the proposal that
inspection behaviours could
have undergone ritualisation—represents an interesting and
creative extension
of ethological theory into anthropogenesis.</span><span
lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">However, several
elements of
the specific evolutionary narrative raise questions concerning
evidentiary
robustness.</span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">One issue concerns the
adaptationist chain structure of the argument. The scenario is
constructed as a
sequential causal series: bipedalism leads to earlier weaning;
earlier weaning
increases infant risk; this selects for suppression of fertility
swelling;
persistent male interest follows; coercion dynamics emerge;
permanent adipose
breasts function as deceptive lactation signals; inspection
behaviours are
ritualised; contraception produces futile ovulation and
menstruation; ovarian
depletion lowers menopause age; grandmothering increases
reproductive success;
demographic expansion follows.</span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">Each link may be
plausible in
isolation. Yet when combined into a single linear chain, the
explanatory burden
becomes very high. If one step is weakened, the dependent steps
become unstable.
Evolutionary history is often more reticulate and multi-causal
than such linear
reconstructions suggest. Clarifying which steps are essential to
the thesis and
which are heuristic would strengthen the model.</span><span
lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">A particularly delicate
component is the hypothesis that permanent adipose breasts
evolved primarily as
anti-coercion deceptive signals. Signalling theory suggests that
deceptive
signals are often evolutionarily unstable unless constrained by
costs or
enforcement mechanisms. Alternative hypotheses—fat storage
byproduct, honest
signal of reproductive value, sexual selection, pair-bond
reinforcement—remain
active and empirically viable. At present, the evidence does not
decisively
privilege the anti-coercion account. The proposal would benefit
from explicit,
discriminating predictions that could in principle falsify it.</span><span
lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">Similarly, the
suggestion that
successful contraception led to futile ovulation and regular
menstruation is
innovative but currently lacks strong mechanistic support.
Evolutionary explanations
of menstruation remain contested and diverse. A clearer account
of
physiological pathways would be necessary to substantiate this
connection.</span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">With respect to
menopause and
the grandmother effect, while there is meaningful support for
grandmothering
hypotheses, the topic remains debated. Moreover, recent primate
research
complicates sharp contrasts between humans and chimpanzees
regarding
post-reproductive lifespan. Thus, integrating menopause into the
scenario is
conceptually elegant but empirically provisional.</span><span
lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">From an
information-scientific
perspective, further clarification may also be helpful. When
describing breasts
or swellings as “sex symbols” or “information tools,” it is
important to
specify what is meant by information. Is it conceived in a
Shannon-type
transmission sense, a functional selection sense, or a
relational coordination
sense? The narrative occasionally risks reifying symbols as
objects that carry
information, rather than describing them as stabilised patterns
of interaction within
coupled organisms. Emphasising the relational dimension of
signalling may
strengthen theoretical coherence within the Foundations of
Information Science
context.</span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">Finally, the text
connects
deep evolutionary dynamics to contemporary phenomena such as
sexual harassment,
divorce rates, and declining birth numbers. While exploring
long-term
behavioural legacies is legitimate, caution is warranted.
Contemporary sexual
behaviour is deeply shaped by cultural, economic, institutional,
and
technological factors. Any evolutionary inheritance operates
within these
higher-order symbolic systems. Distinguishing between
speculative evolutionary
predispositions and modern socio-cultural dynamics would enhance
explanatory
precision and avoid unintended normative implications.</span><span
lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">In conclusion, your
scenario
is bold, integrative, and intellectually generative. Its
strength lies in
provoking dialogue and in foregrounding ritualisation as a
mechanism for the
emergence of symbolic coordination. At present, however, the
evidentiary
scaffolding appears insufficient to support the full sequential
model as more
than a plausible reconstruction. Clarifying empirical
commitments, alternative
hypotheses, and falsifiable predictions would significantly
strengthen the
contribution.</span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE">I look forward to
further
discussion.</span><span lang="EN-GB"
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-fareast-language:DE">With collegial regards,</span><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-language:DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-fareast-language:DE">Steve Watson</span><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-language:DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin"> </span></p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Note: New Email Address: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rainer.feistel@iow.de">rainer.feistel@iow.de</a>
Dr. rer. nat. habil. Rainer Feistel
Physicist (emeritus)
PS Gustav Hertz Prize, Berlin 1981
CITAC Best Paper Award, Paris 2011
IAPWS Honorary Fellow, London 2013
BIPM Metrologia Highlight Articles, Paris 2016
EGU Fridtjof Nansen Medal, Vienna 2018
LS Daniel Ernst Jablonski Medal, Berlin 2021
IAPWS Gibbs Award, Boulder, Co., 2024</pre>
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