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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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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">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!XuI2mMrOQpdQkGnDLYOWh1_yq9UHSIM89MEBqvBJUyMMuX0YWG3N0xeiZFQkOtsKn2wmbxTXGL6aLsomEjDC-7LNJUk$" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://doi.org/10.3390/e25121596</a></span>
, and “Emergence of Symbolic Information by the Ritualisation
Transition”, <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813109001_0004__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!XuI2mMrOQpdQkGnDLYOWh1_yq9UHSIM89MEBqvBJUyMMuX0YWG3N0xeiZFQkOtsKn2wmbxTXGL6aLsomEjDC_uoBcak$" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">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!XuI2mMrOQpdQkGnDLYOWh1_yq9UHSIM89MEBqvBJUyMMuX0YWG3N0xeiZFQkOtsKn2wmbxTXGL6aLsomEjDC0F0JuLY$" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">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>
<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"> </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">-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht
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style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm">
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style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:right;line-height:normal"><b><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">Betreff: </span></b></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-GB"
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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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style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm">
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style="mso-fareast-font-family:
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mso-fareast-language:DE">Datum: </span></b></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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">Thu,
12 Feb 2026 11:40:27 +0000</span></p>
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style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm">
<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:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-language:DE">Von: </span></b></p>
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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">Steve Watson <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:sw10014@cam.ac.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true"><sw10014@cam.ac.uk></a></span></p>
</td>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"
style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm">
<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:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-language:DE">An: </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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">Rainer
Feistel (IOW) <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:rainer.feistel@iow.de"
moz-do-not-send="true"><rainer.feistel@iow.de></a>,
<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es"
moz-do-not-send="true">fis@listas.unizar.es</a> <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es"
moz-do-not-send="true"><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 moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:rainer.feistel@iow.de" moz-do-not-send="true">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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<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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