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Agriculture and cultural ecology

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NeilUnreal
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10-01-2003 10:15 PM

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Once a woman is infertile she could live to a thousand and it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference.
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It might make a difference in kinship selection. After all, much of human culture is a study in kinship selection, and the elderly are a vital repository of cultural information. Especially in societies where they participate substantially in child-rearing.
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-Neil
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