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Is this stuff in our genes?
Jude:
This stuff is definitely in our genes. There has been some adaptation over the last 8000 years or so to the dietary changes of the Neolithic, but only after hundreds of thousands of years of adaptation during the Paleolithic. Modern humans are only slightly domesticated cavemen. The whole 60s-70s idea that the genders are psychologically the same, has largely been debunked. Men and women think differently, because we evolved differing roles as hunter-gatherers. Even how we find our way around is different: males tend to unconciously remember distances and changes in direction, while females remember landmarks. The male strategy is more useful for finding your way home after tracking game animals in unfamiliar territory, while the female strategy is more useful for finding your way back to seasonally recurring resource sites. In the modern context, my wife and I agree, that if we've never been there before, I should drive, because my seat of the pants navigation skills are second to none, but if we've been there before, she should drive, since she remembers the route while I act like it's the first time all over again. I have three sons, and my wife tried her best to shelter them from violence, and was largely successful. They are all very nice, gentle, boys, but they still naturally gravitated to guns, knives, bows, martial arts, etc. I told her that "they're my boys, so what did you expect?" My oldest would refuse offers for rides to school, not wanting to part with his time outside. Considering this was in Fairbanks Alaska and -35o it shows how strongly he felt about his outside time. All three have bows and study martial arts, because those are the sports that interest them the most. I think it hit me over 30 years ago, when I read a N. Geo. article on the ice age migration into the Americas. I saw the stone and bone points (especially the Clovis spear points), and fell in love with the ice age. The first thing I did was shatter a cow leg bone, and try to grind an arrowhead out of a splinter. After 20 years of fooling with compound bows and firearms, I'm right back full circle, playing with primitive bows and arrows. There's a caveman lurking in all of us, he just needs the right triggers to bring him out.
Tsalagi:
I agree. When picking blackberries, my wife tends to find them better that I do. But when it comes to spotting an animal, I'm always the first to see it. But I excel at both landmarks and also distances/changes in direction. I was raised by women. ;D
Jude:
I always maintain, that I've never been lost. Temporarily misplaced perhaps, but never lost. ;)
Del the cat:
Jude, dude... I loved reading your post #60, made me wish I was away from this desk.
Del
Jude:
Thanks Del, I had to go look that one up. Glad to see you enjoyed the tale of my hunting prowess. ::)
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