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Re: Intercourse /vs/ Offspring
E Douglas Kihn (vivacuba@ix.netcom.com(E)
12 Dec 1996 08:03:22 GMT
In <58kj57$qu3@news.sdd.hp.com> geroldf@sdd.hp.com (Gerold Firl)
writes:
>
>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:
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>|> >When did man first recognize the correlation between intercourse
and
>|> >babies being born 3 seasons later?
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>|> 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.
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>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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>Disclaimer claims dat de claims claimed in dis are de claims of
meself,
>me, and me alone, so sue us god. I won't tell Bill & Dave if you
won't.
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=---- Gerold Firl @
..hplabs!hp-sdd!geroldf
'Scuse me. . .
But rock paintings showing animals copulating (and having a heluva
great time) doesn't make that connection at all. It merely suggests
that pre-technological humans recognized a good time when they saw it!
Now, if there was a rock painting that showed animals copulating, and
then in the next picture the same species giving birth, wouldn't that
be a HOOT!
Dr. Doug
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