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Re:Genetic, not economic(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.14 0:17 (#19491633) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.12 2:40)
Taboo is not originally taboo, it came to be taboo as a result of practicing too many times and resulting in some inconvenience that cannot be evaded unless we stop doing or prohibitting as a form of taboo. I think incest falls on this category.
Current humans firstly appeared in some part of Africa 200,000 years ago and it was only 10,000 years ago that humans started building a civilised society, which means 190,000 years long humans had experienced a dark age. My assumption is humans must have had an incest-prone breedings during this period. As a result of this, humans had been unable to reproduce any more decent offsprings unless they had to seek for their mate outside their family. This is the background what I think why incest came to be taboo. So rare examples of incest in a limited lineage or enclosed area might have been correct to consider they are few examples of atavism. I observe those birth defects are both the result of incest and a cause of prohibition.
As to how humans conceive the notion of time and space, I think humans had been too long neither aware of sequence of time nor noticing they are occupying in a certain space. My assumption is their consciousness to time and space must have been much more ambiguous than now, that's what I proposed in my previous JE -Adam, etc.
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