 Neotenous features in adult females may help elicit more resource investment and nurturing from adult males.Likewise, neotenous features in adult males may similarly help elicit more resource investment and nurturing from adult females in addition to possibly making neotenous adult males appear less threatening and possibly making neotenous adult males more able to elicit resources from "other resource-rich people".Therefore, it could be adaptive for adult females to be attracted to adult males that have "some" neotenous traits.