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To: Renfield; SunkenCiv

When you think about the implications of farming vs. nomadic hunting/gathering it may be a logical outcome.

Farming means families are going to stay in one place together, probably for most of their lives. Not much choice of finding a mate from outside the immediate family group/clan/tribe.

Nomadic hunting groups however might well run into other families with the ensuing wider choice of mates.


23 posted on 06/22/2013 9:28:23 AM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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To: wildbill

That’s less of a problem — the main problem is lower infant mortality leading to large family sizes; in my own tree a few generations back, one of three brothers who settled near here married into another large family; he had a niece who married one of his wife’s nephews, and from his other brother a nephew who married one of his wife’s nieces. At that time, given the lower overall population and sectarian isolations, it pretty much had to happen that way.


24 posted on 06/22/2013 2:07:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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