Comments on: Mama panda drinks junior’s blood http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2006/05/09/mama-panda-drinks-juniors-blood/ Films about life Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:36:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: emre http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2006/05/09/mama-panda-drinks-juniors-blood/#comment-245 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:44:46 +0000 http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2006/05/09/mama-panda-drinks-juniors-blood/#comment-245 Here is a new article in the NYT about the evolution of cannibalism in mating: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/science/05cann.html">This Can’t Be Love</a> Here is a new article in the NYT about the evolution of cannibalism in mating: This Can’t Be Love

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]]> by: ES http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2006/05/09/mama-panda-drinks-juniors-blood/#comment-39 Sun, 21 May 2006 03:38:54 +0000 http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2006/05/09/mama-panda-drinks-juniors-blood/#comment-39 Hey, what's up with all this interest in evolution of sexual strategies? I studied this subject with much attention in Lviv University before coming to the US, now forgot most of it. If you are indeed interested in life strategies in animals, I suggest you to read on what environmental factors cause one species to be polygamous, others polyandrous. The subject can be fascinating sometimes. In fruitflies, for example, repeated inseminations are fatal to the female because seminal fluid of males is toxic to the sperm of other males and partially to the female, In humans it is incredibly complicated because of culture which writes its own code, which sometimes persists not because it is biologically advantageous, but simply because individuals can risk social exclusion by not obeying this code. However, there are people on Earth (more specifically in South Asia, Tibet, Nepal, and northern India) which do practice polyandry. In Na people of China (they lead a subsistence lifestyle in Himalaya), the concept of marriage doesn't exist, and sexual acts are committed exclusively during furtive visits of males (often through the window) to their female lovers. If I recall correctly, when an anthropologist spoke with these people, someone invited (him?) to be a "visitor." Hey, what’s up with all this interest in evolution of sexual strategies? I studied this subject with much attention in Lviv University before coming to the US, now forgot most of it.

If you are indeed interested in life strategies in animals, I suggest you to read on what environmental factors cause one species to be polygamous, others polyandrous. The subject can be fascinating sometimes. In fruitflies, for example, repeated inseminations are fatal to the female because seminal fluid of males is toxic to the sperm of other males and partially to the female,

In humans it is incredibly complicated because of culture which writes its own code, which sometimes persists not because it is biologically advantageous, but simply because individuals can risk social exclusion by not obeying this code.

However, there are people on Earth (more specifically in South Asia, Tibet, Nepal, and northern India) which do practice polyandry. In Na people of China (they lead a subsistence lifestyle in Himalaya), the concept of marriage doesn’t exist, and sexual acts are committed exclusively during furtive visits of males (often through the window) to their female lovers. If I recall correctly, when an anthropologist spoke with these people, someone invited (him?) to be a “visitor.”

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]]> by: emre http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2006/05/09/mama-panda-drinks-juniors-blood/#comment-38 Sat, 20 May 2006 19:38:09 +0000 http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2006/05/09/mama-panda-drinks-juniors-blood/#comment-38 Even if you take failures to conceive into account, the number of attempts required to raise a typical family of two is not going to satisfy anybody over the course of their entire life. I would be interested to learn how polygamy/monogamy affects a species' social structure. Does polygamy come before monogamy? If so, do species ever revert to polygamy after turning monogamous? Humans seem to carry both tendencies; males tending more towards polygamy than females. Even if you take failures to conceive into account, the number of attempts required to raise a typical family of two is not going to satisfy anybody over the course of their entire life.

I would be interested to learn how polygamy/monogamy affects a species’ social structure. Does polygamy come before monogamy? If so, do species ever revert to polygamy after turning monogamous? Humans seem to carry both tendencies; males tending more towards polygamy than females.

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]]> by: Hassan http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2006/05/09/mama-panda-drinks-juniors-blood/#comment-37 Sat, 20 May 2006 18:35:15 +0000 http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2006/05/09/mama-panda-drinks-juniors-blood/#comment-37 emre: yr mind works in interesting ways. as to yr "Now the conservatives are debating whether or not birth control should be practiced at all" statment, thats nothing new. The Catholic church has never supported birth control. and u seem to be missing some crucial facts about the real world in saying 'never work in the real world.' Generally, it takes multiple sex acts for successful conception. So people wouldn't just be having sex once or twice like u say. What r u thinking, that b4 birth control people who had 2 children only had sex 2x (or 14 had it 14x, for that matter)? and u r biologically inaccurate in claiming faitfulness to partner is against animal instinct. Humans r not the only animals that r generally monogamous. Maybe r u trying to justify yr unfaithful thoughts? :P emre: yr mind works in interesting ways. as to yr “Now the conservatives are debating whether or not birth control should be practiced at all” statment, thats nothing new. The Catholic church has never supported birth control. and u seem to be missing some crucial facts about the real world in saying ‘never work in the real world.’ Generally, it takes multiple sex acts for successful conception. So people wouldn’t just be having sex once or twice like u say. What r u thinking, that b4 birth control people who had 2 children only had sex 2x (or 14 had it 14x, for that matter)? and u r biologically inaccurate in claiming faitfulness to partner is against animal instinct. Humans r not the only animals that r generally monogamous. Maybe r u trying to justify yr unfaithful thoughts? :P

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]]> by: ES http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2006/05/09/mama-panda-drinks-juniors-blood/#comment-36 Wed, 10 May 2006 20:00:13 +0000 http://olivebarrel.com/blog/2006/05/09/mama-panda-drinks-juniors-blood/#comment-36 > Strictly speaking, we are animals too. Sure they are, but there is an arbitrary boundary on which morality is based. The pictures seemed to shun that boundary, although I liked them. Okay, I will shut up now about this. "Story of the Eye" is available online as a zipped PDF, a link on the following page: http://supervert.com/elibrary/georges_bataille It is considered to be one of the better marvels of porngraphic literature. > Strictly speaking, we are animals too.

Sure they are, but there is an arbitrary boundary on which morality is based. The pictures seemed to shun that boundary, although I liked them. Okay, I will shut up now about this.

“Story of the Eye” is available online as a zipped PDF, a link on the following page:

http://supervert.com/elibrary/georges_bataille

It is considered to be one of the better marvels of porngraphic literature.

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