Last edited by Louis VI the Fat; 10-26-2009 at 03:58.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Right Zain, I forgot. So what kind of schooling do you have?
As to answer your question about interaction between men and women...
Now, this is of course VERY vague.
In the days of the hunter/gatherers, the main principle was one man and his mate. Science points towards a trend to live together like husband and wife.
However, should a man die, his woman would be taken by another man that looked after her, and had her as second wife. In SOME areas the first wife retained more rights to the husband than any second and thrid wife, this is however, of course very individual.
A woman could not survive alone, but needed a man to take care of her (as she did not know how to hunt).
"marriage" to use a modern phrase, was organized when two bands, or tribes, met.
Remember that this was in a time where you could walk for years without meeting anyone outside of your band.
So, when two bands met, they exchanged children. As they knew that you need a strong and diverse gene-seed to survive. Having sex within the family really isnt a very good idea, as you might know.
However, take everything I have written with a grain of salt, so to say. Fact is, we really are not very sure.
As per request of original poster.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
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