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To: js1138
Some people speculate that this realization did not occur until people started domesticating animals.

I've been told there are some hunter-gatherer societies in today's world where people still don't make that association. (Though that could be an urban legend - don't quote me on it.)

637 posted on 09/14/2005 9:45:09 AM PDT by Quark2005 (Where's the science?)
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To: Quark2005

I agree on both your points. Anthropology doesn't have a very good track record in recording the culture of "isolated" tribes. But in a society where everyone had sex, it would be pretty difficult to associate it with babies.

But pretty difficult to forget the association once figured out.


640 posted on 09/14/2005 9:55:55 AM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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