Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rays are literally death rays. A man ex posed to strong enough fays for a few minutes would die within a few months. A few seconds' exposure could cause temporary and possibly permanent sexual sterility, as well as severe blood changes. These and other effects can be cumulative, picked up fatally second by second through several years. The machines at G.E. are housed in windowless buildings with 18-inch concrete walls to keep any death-dealing X-rays from getting out, and every worker in this laboratory carries an X-ray plate strapped to his wrist to give warning...
These Seminole ways confirm Robert Briffault's assertion in his great study of matriarchies, The Mothers, that patriarchal marriage and the patriarchal family are "relatively late products of social evolution." Mother-dominated societies came first. Big reason: among primitive folk, sexual relations are often so free that only a child's mother is identifiable...
...social insects,* ants are the most highly developed. As many as eleven castes stratify some ant species: even the simplest colonies contain queens, drones, workers, soldiers. The drone caste contains all the colony's few males, whose sole function is sexual. So is the queen's. But the workers and soldiers are all sterile...
...origin of these non-sexual castes has long been debated by entomologists. Some claim they are born of different sorts of eggs. Others claim that all ants are equal when they hatch into the larval state and only during their further development acquire caste with its distinctive form, physiology and behavior. But, if so, how? Here, too, the scientists propose confusing answers...
Advertisement. "Many animals, far from being concealingly colored, are very conspicuous objects in nature." Brightness is often used by animals for sexual or signaling purposes, but Cott's concern is only with the relations of prey and predator. As a rule, if an animal advertises its presence, it is a good bet that a predator wouldn't want it anyway. Birds and fishes are likely to mistake inanimate objects for the insects on which they feed, so they can easily mistake an unpalatable insect for a tasty one-unless the former distinguishes himself by loud red, orange...