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freshnesschronic · 02-21-2011, 01:32 PM

What I was meaning to say was the origins concept of "marriage" or mutual agreement between a man and a woman and their offspring.

All forms of marriages came about because of the postpartum feeding problem. I took a cultural anthropology class; this is fact. And then culture took over and and variances/differences happened.

BUT marriage and everything related to it happened because of this: as the species homo sapiens produce offspring with very long childhoods and usually only one at a time, the human mother did not collect food/hunt while taking care of this offspring. The father takes the responsibility for being the food provider for his mate and offspring. We are not a mate-and-leave-your-offspring type of species, and because of that marriage has developed universally.

02-21-2011, 01:32 PM	#25
freshnesschronic Professor Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,555	What I was meaning to say was the origins concept of "marriage" or mutual agreement between a man and a woman and their offspring. All forms of marriages came about because of the postpartum feeding problem. I took a cultural anthropology class; this is fact. And then culture took over and and variances/differences happened. BUT marriage and everything related to it happened because of this: as the species homo sapiens produce offspring with very long childhoods and usually only one at a time, the human mother did not collect food/hunt while taking care of this offspring. The father takes the responsibility for being the food provider for his mate and offspring. We are not a mate-and-leave-your-offspring type of species, and because of that marriage has developed universally.