GHung wrote:I never really bought into the idea that young couples make babies to take care of them in old age. People in their 20s generally think they will live forever. The Waltons had a lot of babies mainly because they had no birth control, no abortion, and, like most folks, they liked to screw. They took care of their old parents for a lot of reasons.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ralfy wrote:Likely not, as there is no surplus.
onlooker wrote:If one looks at Scandinavian countries they consistently rank very high in terms of "happiness" criteria.
EnergyUnlimited wrote:@Newfie,
I think, an origin of indian casts has rather "racist" background.
Different tribes living there, including Aryan ones didn't want to mix and yet they were somehow "sentenced" to live in one place.
The lowest cast was simply mixture of outcasts of other casts bundled together with members of weakest and irrelevant tribes.
Complex relations between casts have evolved gradually, just to give a stake in economy for involved tribes and maintain relative peace and harmony.
But this is my speculation based on very restricted knowledge, so it may be wrong.
In general Indians are to a certain degree colour coded:
The darker your skin, the lower your cast.
asg70 wrote: It's possible, perhaps, that the lowering sperm counts aren't just because of things like soy and phthalates but that some mysterious epigenetic trigger is taking place. There are a lot of studies about genetic memory lately, that certain kinds of environmental stressors imprint themselves into genes that then get passed along from generation to generation. This could be what is causing male feminization and autism and more masculine female behavior. It's something that is sort of happening on its own without any of us really being conscious about it, but it is ultimately a response to changes in the environment. There is less of a need for reproduction and so men grow increasingly weak and impotent. And with less children, women need to be part of the workforce, less nurturing and more selfish. So sexual dimorphism collapses and we sort of implode towards an androgynous gray area.
...Cucuteni–Trypillia culture... was still (even in its later phases) very much an egalitarian society...
Like other Neolithic societies, the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture had almost no division of labor. Although this culture's settlements sometimes grew to become the largest on Earth at the time (up to 15,000 people in the largest)[31], there is no evidence that has been discovered of labour specialisation. Every household probably had members of the extended family who would work in the fields to raise crops, go to the woods to hunt game and bring back firewood, work by the river to bring back clay or fish and all of the other duties that would be needed to survive. Contrary to popular belief, the Neolithic people experienced considerable abundance of food and other resources.
Since every household was almost entirely self-sufficient, there was very little need for trade.
Plantagenet wrote:
Humans don't seem to have this hard-wired need for space.
In a scene fit for a horror film, paperclip-size cicadas sexually transmit a fungus attached to their bodies from one mate to another, sometimes losing parts of their abdomens along the way.
Now, new research reveals just how the fungus keeps those cicadas mating, Science News reports.
Massospora cicadina, which forms a spore that erupts through the insects’ abdomen, produces the hallucinogen psilocybin and the amphetamine cathinone.
These two drugs curb the critters’ appetites, letting them mate over and over again even after losing parts of their bodies, researchers report this week in Fungal Ecology. Scientists plan to next study how the fungus produces the drugs—and whether they influence other aspects of insects’ behavior.
careinke wrote:Plantagenet wrote:
Humans don't seem to have this hard-wired need for space.
Well I certainly seem to be hardwired for space. Just Sayin....
Newfie wrote:Another way to look at this would be from a religious perspective. Recently I’ve read the political divide within the USA has risen to the point where families are intervening when partners with opposite political affiliation desire to wed.
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