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Nitpicking here, but there probably wasn’t anything we would define as “marriage”. That Wikipedia article says “copulate” instead. Now I want to go down the wik
by cyberlurker 5y ago
Nitpicking here, but there probably wasn’t anything we would define as “marriage”. That Wikipedia article says “copulate” instead.
Now I want to go down the wiki rabbit hole about the history of human marriage.
Also, I’d imagine there were at least far fewer viruses before urbanization. My understanding is early civilization was really good for diseases.
- refurb 5y agoEarly civilization would have been brutal in terms of diseases compared to today. There are plenty of diseases where humans are a part of the reproduction cycle - malaria is a good example. You don’t need groups of humans together. Then add in human-animal transmission and you have endemic malaria, tuberculosis, parasites, disease causing bacteria. If you look at remote, isolated tribes today they have a very heavy burden of non-fatal (but quality of life decreasing) diseases.
- tablespoon 5y ago> Nitpicking here, but there probably wasn’t anything we would define as “marriage”. That Wikipedia article says “copulate” instead. That specific passage was talking about chimpanzees.