[lbo-talk] Kinship and reproduction

[Mike Ballard]

Charles wrote:
Apes don't have kinship and kingroups. A human kin group is 
qualitatively different than an ape group. It organizes living society on the
basis of the descent from common dead ancestors. Female-male sexual relations
are organized according to kingroup traditions, "taboos" and liberties. But
monogamy and exclusive sexual partners is not one of the old time 
taboos. That starts with the origin of "the" family, private property and the 
state. ( See book of that title). At the origin of socalled civilizatoin, 
ruling men want to know who their children are so as to pass on private 
property to them (!) so they institute monogamy for (against) women. This is
12,000 years ago, long _after_ human evolutionary development is settled and 
in an "equilibrium" in Eldrige and Gould's sense. At the point at which 
monogamy enters, there is no "evolution of the physcial psyche" going on,
hasn't 
been for millenia. Humans had long ago totally differentiated themselves 
from apes. They were physically as we are today.

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Point of information:

Elizabeth Fisher speculates in her book WOMAN'S CREATION that the
secret/science of the male role reproduction didn't come to light until the
advent of animal husbandry--an important part in the jump to private property
and class society.  That is, when it was noticed that separation of males and
females in a herd would cause reproductive disruption and that putting certain
males with certain females made for healthier, more plentiful offspring.

Regards,
Mike B)  

Read "Penguins in Bondage":
http://happystiletto.blogspot.com/

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