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From: trc@hou5a.UUCP
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Subject: One UN-COMMONLY beautifyul female ancestor
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Date: Mon, 21-Nov-83 08:50:54 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 21 08:50:54 1983
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RE common female ancestor:

I've got it!  Remember how ugly the cave-men/women were depicted in the
museum field trips and grade school science magazines?  So one day a 
mutation arises - and the first beautiful woman is born.  Naturally she
was in heavy demand, and had many children.  Her daughters were just as
good looking, and so were also in heavy demand.  Daughters became a
valuable trade commodity for a while, and were traded the world over.
This theory has the added advantage of explaining the basis for the 
attitudes of men towards women as property in many societies.  Of course,
eventually, the good looking  girls "froze out" most ugly ones, and the
value of a normal good looking daughter dropped considerably - the market i
was glutted, so to speak.   In fact, fathers now had to give others money
to take them off their hands.  Thus the tradition of giving a dowry.

	:-)
	Tom Craver
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