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Sender:	Paleolithic Eating Support List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 3 Nov 1999 23:11:33 -0600
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Subject:	Re: hunter/gatherer to agriculture (encore)
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From:	Ray Audette <[log in to unmask]>
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> We may well ask why men suddenly sought to control paternity, if
> they had lacked such control for hundreds of thousands of years.

According to an article in Scientific American,("High Fertility in
Sub-Saharan Africa") the invention of the plow made lifetime monogamy and
patrilineal decent an economic necessity.

Because of tetse flies limiting the availability of draft animals,
sub-Saharan Africa never adopted this mode of mating and inheritance.  Thus
female chastity is not such a big deal and polygamy predominates.

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"
http://www.neanderthin.com

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