2,000 year old grave with 28 YO and 14 YO found
07-05-2013, 10:15 AM
Quote: (07-05-2013 09:51 AM)Parlay44 Wrote:
Don't you find it ironic that women become sexually mature waaaay before they become mentally mature?
Older guys being attracted to sexy younger girls is not a new concept. It's been that way since the dawn of time.
I had one professor tell me that even if you factored out children who died before 8, average life expectancy was still only about 35. Some people still lived to, say, 60 however. They were probably regarded as strange oracles of wisdom.
I believe agriculture was the enabler for increased population. Hunter-gatherer(HG) era women only had one child every three years, agricultural( AG) people could have a child every year, although I've read that human height actually decreased during the transition where AG-man outreproduced HG-man.
I assume AG-Man could also start storing knowledge in the form of more books and artwork, since they would have a place to keep it, eventually leading to miracles such as gangster rap.
As far as what mature is, in the evolutionary sense, readiness to have kids is far more important than the abiliityto contribute to a technological producer-consumer society.
Women only rarely really graduate to using relatively objective, non-personalized thought, even most men are trapped in primitive neolithic religious and magical thinking and aren't capable of solid logic.
Anyway, our logic is here to serve our reproduction, not vice versa.