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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (78032)	4/13/2000 6:11:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Your post reminded me of something - neotony, the retention of juvenile characteristics into maturity. Humans have adapted to the large brain and large skull that holds it by being born "premature" compared to other mammals, and retain juvenile characteristics for a long time, even into maturity, compared to other large primates. We have an innate attraction for juveniles (I don't mean sexual, although some have that), which is good because if we didn't, we wouldn't shoulder the burden of prolonged infancy. We even select our domestic animals to have more juvenile characteristics than wild-type. Probably a lot of the behavior that I say is innate and you say is learned is essential for the prolonged mother-child bond, and the inter-family bond. Slavery is directed towards "others." Subjugation of women seemed like protection of one's own women, the women who were mistreated were "other."

To: Dayuhan who wrote (78032)	4/13/2000 6:17:00 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 108807

<<What I believe is innate is our social drive,...>> This is about the only thing that I agree with you on in that post. I always thought Thoreau's "Walden" was hilarious. He so wanted everybody in the universe to share the enormous beauty of his solitude with him.