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From: cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
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Subject: Re: The persistance of homosexuality in a gene pool
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Date: 30 Jul 90 18:40:18 GMT
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In article <10615@cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:

>Indeed, there is good reason to think that
>early humans did not even know the connection between sex and
>pregnancy.  

Not just early humans. A fairly recent model (female, ~60 yrs old) told
me quite seriously that at the time she had her first child she still
beleived that kissing made you pregnant. Her parents had told her
nothing, and this supposition was current amongst her girl friends.
Well, maybe she was naive and they were pulling her leg; but maybe they
were equally ignorant, but had noted the undoubted statistical
correlation -- i.e., of all their friends, only those who hadn't kissed
a man hadn't got pregnant.
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aipna   031 667 1011 x2550
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK