>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
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