[Magdalen] praising the Liberal Arts

[Kate Conant]

I was wondering the same thing.

Ann?

"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Juli Tarsney <juli at tarsney.net> wrote:

> Now *I'm* confused. Wouldn't a 17:1 F-M ratio argue FOR polygamy?
>
> Ann?
>
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 4:32 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu>
> wrote:
> > I see. Agreed, though the literature you cite is from the Middle East,
> not
> > primarily Europe per se (and my assumption is they’re referring to
> northern
> > and western Europe, which may be incorrect). The curious/surprising thing
> > to me was the 17:1 woman/man ratio, and how that was deduced by reading
> the
> > human genome. It makes it surprising that polygamy developed (though
> again,
> > not in northern and western Europe — in fact, maybe that’s why it DIDN’T
> > develop there!): polyandry would make a lot more sense!
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:18 PM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The Old Testament is full of just the sort of thing the scientists are
> >> describing.
> >> People moving from one area to another,
> >> along with their families and livestock,
> >> conquering cities,
> >> killing the residents (or at least the men).
> >> Sometimes in battle.
> >> Sometimes by stealth.
> >>
> >> Nearly all of ancient literature is about war and occupation.
> >>
> >> And here are these scientists surprised to discover (in their study of
> >> genetics)
> >> that loads and loads of men died just as history was about to be born.
> >>
> >> If they’d done their undergraduate reading they wouldn’t have been
> >> surprised at all.
> >> -M
> >>
> >> On Friday, June 1, 2018, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Margaret, I'm trying to puzzle out what you mean here, but I just
> >> can't.  I
> >> > hate to be so dim, but could you say a little more?
> >> >
> >> > Ann
> >> >
> >> > The Rev. Ann Markle
> >> > Buffalo, NY
> >> > ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 10:44 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > I just read a news article that says that seven thousand years ago
> wars
> >> > had
> >> > > so reduced the male population that there was only one man living
> for
> >> > every
> >> > > seventeen women.
> >> > >
> >> > > Apparently these people have never read the Old Testament.
> >> > > Or the Bhagavad Gita.
> >> > > Hello Philip of Macedon. Hello Alexander the Great.
> >> > > Homer? That guy on the Simpsons?
> >> > > There was a time when epic was a noun.
> >> > > -M
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> > --
> > Ann
> >
> > The Rev. Ann Markle
> > Buffalo, NY
> > www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>