>From: Brad Cooley <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Paleolithic Eating Support List <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: [P-F] cave women and menopause >Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:31:01 -0500 > >On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:58:44 EDT, Sheryl Canter <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >Elder women in tribal society play a very important, if genderless, role of >passing on tribal knowledge, wisdom, and lore to the children. This is an >important contribution in addition to the other economic contributions made >to the tribe. True. Recently there was a study on African elephants which showed that the groups with oldest female elephant had the highest chances to survive and to make wise decision. I think we care less for old people than primitive cultures did and the statement that nature intended us to die young is false. With pre-agricultural rate of procreation and lack of Internet :) old people was living huge databases which increased chances to survive of the tribe. Paul Sand [log in to unmask] _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp