Re: Intercourse /vs/ Offspring
Gerold Firl (geroldf@sdd.hp.com)
10 Dec 1996 21:02:31 GMT
In article <58gfdf$28i@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com>, vivacuba@ix.netcom.com(E Douglas Kihn) writes:
|> In <32AB7D0A.6638@earthlink.net> Hugh Hoskins <hthoskins@earthlink.net>
|> writes:
|> >When did man first recognize the correlation between intercourse and
|> >babies being born 3 seasons later?
|> This is such a heluva good question, it deserves to be public! My
|> take on it is that paternity wasn't known until animal husbandry, which
|> started around 8,000 to 10,000 years ago.
Could be, although low-intervention reindeer-style husbandry may have
been in use *much* earlier. Some researchers have suggested that
gazelles were being managed on the coastal plains of the ice-age
levant 30,000 years ago.
Depictions of copulating animals in the cro-magnon cave paintings also
suggests an earlier comprehension of the connection between sex and
procreation.
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