I am posting this for speculative fiction and fantasy writers who want to create truly alien human cultures. Consider this excellent but also unthinking poorly analyzed article (IMHO). The author's culture gets in the way.
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-million-year-lucy-fossil-reveals.html
There is a distinct bias toward patriarchy in this article and the assumption that monogamy was necessary evolutionarily without supporting evidence. Relatedness for the sake of child care can't be clearer if uncles and brothers are the somehow essential male care providers, not some random "father". Matrilineal cultures likely existed until the idea of Indo-Europeans property rights through the male line took over our cultures 6-8 millennia ago. Archeological finds support this. That is the origin of shame, to control women's sexuality at the price of female self-determination to force property rights solely down a patrilineal line.
Humans haven't always lived the way they do now, nor must they in the future.
A thought provoking article—in many ways.
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Fifty years ago, scientists discovered a nearly complete fossilized skull and hundreds of pieces of bone of a 3.2-million-year-old female specimen of the genus Australopithecus afarensis, often described as "the mother of us all." During a celebration following her discovery, she was named "Lucy," after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."
Une nouvelle hypothèse sur les origines des langues indo-européennes a été établie grâce à l’analyse de 161 langues, dont 52 anciennes : toutes ces manières de parler furent un jour une seule et même langue.
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