Reply #53: Thinking of natural selection

[Yupster]

and early humans wandering as groups of hunters and gatherers, I think it does make some sense.

First, the girls would become available as sex partners to the dominant males as soon as they were physically able. That would be a given.

Isn't that how it works with other animals?

Also, children would be considered burdens to the group as it moved from place to place. Wouldn't a sexual attractiveness to the children by the males be an advantage to keeping those children better protected, fed and alive?

I think that the males being sexually attracted to girls would be a trait that ntural selection would favor as those groups would have a lower child mortality rate which back then would have been disastrously high for even the most successful groups.