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...anomaly for the recent past, not biologically, obviously.
by duaneb 10y ago
...anomaly for the recent past, not biologically, obviously.
- forkandwait 10y agoNot so fast, "obviously". I believe that "neolocal" households are unique, mostly, to post middle age Western Europe. And the 1950s are anomalous within that time scale. Otherwise we see patri- or matri local multi generational households in which adulthood is not correlated with setting up a new household at all. You would marry someone and the move into their parents house. Sure you would start having children, but there isn't the same leaving adolescence thing.
- duaneb 10y agoWhy is that time scale interesting to you as opposed to e.g. the last 150k years?
- Retric 10y agoI don't think we can say anything meaningful about peoples behaviors 10k-150k years ago, and even approaching 10k quickly get's sketchy. Humans have a long period between when it's possible to get pregnant and when it's safest to get pregnant. This may suggest prehistoric females tended to wait around a decade after puberty, or there was huge selective pressure and we still ended up like this.