Leison Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 All the animals, birds,i nsects have specific mating season. why dont the human have mating season? Human can mate anytime. any reasons for this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 It's part of the reproductive "strategy" that humans adopted, and there are a lot of factors. The male can't tell if the female is in heat (concealed ovulation in the female), so (all else being euqal) he's less likely to go running around, looking for other females to impregnate. Were he to do that, some other male might impregnate his mate, and he'd expend effort raising someone else's offspring. The female invests a lot in each offspring, so anything that keeps the father around to help improves survival chances. Also consider that once you have an organism where the children can't fend for themselves right away, or at least soon after birth, then what time of year they are born matters less than e.g. if they need to be a certain size in order to survive the winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 Tellevision spoilt everything! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 Tellevision spoilt everything! ) what do you mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 ye yt2095, what d'u mean... in answer to the original question, its coz human babies dont need to be born at a certain time, like when its hot, or before the winter [same thing!] or for fish and whales, they dont need to be born in shallow or warm water.... humans can be born anywhere, and they [or the parents] can adapt the environment to suit the baby, plus, for a human, food [generaly] is not a problem in obtaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 There is a mating season in humans, it's just not very pronounced any more for the reasons already mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 ok, when is the mating season? wait, let me guess...spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Sex system in humans is part of their social system. Like Swansont said, it is due to our evolution as h. sapiens that our mating seasons are not as pronounced as it is in other species. Greater apes also show some very interesting sexual behavior, and as I've mentioned it here once(forgot what thread that was in), but Bonobo's are much like humans when it comes to sex. That reason alone makes then a bit more diverged then some of the other apes, however strange as it is, it(their sexual system) alone does not make then more closely related to us. Here are some more reads for those interested: Bonobo Apes Primate Males Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 ok, when is the mating season? wait, let me guess...spring. I do believe that there were some studies into this and yes, it is spring. Also, most physicians advice against or at least warn that if the child is born during the winter, that there is a higher chance of experience some complications, either to the mother or the offspring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rakdos Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 we have a maiting season :3 days a month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 i thought it was three times an hour. i guess i just have more game than u. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rakdos Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 for guys maybe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leison Posted August 2, 2004 Author Share Posted August 2, 2004 "swansont"'s reason is logical. and "admiral" thanks for further info on apes but "primate male "link didn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leison Posted August 2, 2004 Author Share Posted August 2, 2004 The male can't tell if the female is in heat (concealed ovulation in the female)' date=' .... .[/quote'] And my question would be why humam males lost the ability to check the hot females (females in heat)? whereas the males from other species (iguanas, horses etc) can check the hot human females. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leison Posted August 2, 2004 Author Share Posted August 2, 2004 we have a maiting season :3 days a month "mating season" means the specific season/time where mating occurs uniformly. every individual is ready for it.. u said 3 days a month .but it depend upon individuals. does at this very days mating take place to every humans? certainly not . so it cannot be term as "mating season". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 what do you mean? and "ye yt2095, what d'u mean..." because before TV, there were `other activities` to keep you interested/entertained on a cold winters night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 lol! Like checkers, chess, board games.... No, really, I get what you mean. But it is a good question... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooeypoo Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 OH MY GOD, I'm so sure this is evolutionary change (lack of mating "season") is due to men. This is the official answer, and I will bet ANYONE that it's also the scientific one! Anyways I completely agree - We don't live in the wild anymore, we don't have natural mating seasons for that matter. Though, someone once told me that winter and spring are these.. "special" times... Ha.. probly no sports on tv at those seasons. Muaha ~moo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Leison: Their server must have been down as it is working for me now. Mooeypoo: Nice knowing you're still around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 And my question would be why humam males lost the ability to check the hot females (females in heat)? whereas the males from other species (iguanas, horses etc) can check the hot human females. The females stopped showing specific signs, not that the males lost the ability to check. Given the monagamous strategy and the investment in each child, it's not surprising that such traits would be selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leison Posted August 3, 2004 Author Share Posted August 3, 2004 The females stopped showing specific signs, not that the males lost the ability to check. i dont think that the females have stopped showing signs. the males from other species can differentiate the human females in heat. that's why i said human males have lost the detecting skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arg Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 i dont think that the females have stopped showing signs. the males from other species can differentiate the human females in heat. that's why i said human males have lost the detecting skills. That doesn't matter. The sexes evolved together, so which one lost or gained which ability is unimportant, as long as the sum of their traits results in men not being able to tell. I'm sure it's a combination of females' ovulation becoming more concealed (certainly not completely), and males losing some of their ability to detect it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 i dont think that the females have stopped showing signs. the males from other species can differentiate the human females in heat. that's why i said human males have lost the detecting skills. Look at the kinds of signs exhibited by chimpanzees and some other primates (e.g. genitalia swelling and turning red). The changes simply aren't present like that in humans. You can argue that they never were present in our remote ancestors either, but that's still not the same as males losing the ability to tell. I think you'd lose that argument anyway, because there are some signs that are always be present - e.g. more prominent breasts and buttocks, that simulate the estrus swelling - that give an "always ready" sign to the males, even when she's not able to conceive. I can't speak for anyone else, but I haven't lost my ability to see those signs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leison Posted August 6, 2004 Author Share Posted August 6, 2004 i think u agreed with me that females haven't stopped showing the signs. I can't speak for anyone else' date=' but I haven't lost my ability to see those signs.[/quote'] yr words above clearly indicates that u again agree that the males have lost the ability to check the signs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 I don't think it's so much that we have lost the ability, more that it's not socially acceptable any more to go around snuffling at people's crotches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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