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From: mls@cbnewsm.att.com (mike.siemon)
Subject: Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 90 18:45:50 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.184550.26876@cbnewsm.att.com>
Summary: say, what?
References: <1990Oct24.175532.9407@pmafire.UUCP> <15490@netcom.UUCP> <1990Nov29.171325.8319@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
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In article <1990Nov29.171325.8319@watserv1.waterloo.edu>,
alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins) writes:
 
> Evidence from before the time of written records strongly suggests that 
> women were much freer. For instance, before the time of the monotheistic
> father gods, desert women could dismiss a lover or husband by simply
> closing the flap or her personal tent to him three nights in a row.

Excuse me, but exactly WHAT evidence could you possibly have to conclude
this "before the time of written records?"  I see no way of getting any
oral accounts of the "good old [or bad old :-)] days" to yield such a
conclusion (except by projection on the part of the concluder) nor any
relevant physical data that might apply.
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