Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!bunker!gmm From: gmm@bunker.UUCP (Gregory M. Mandas) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Laura's Bull Revisited Message-ID: <414@bunker.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 19:08:06 EDT Article-I.D.: bunker.414 Posted: Fri Jun 1 19:08:06 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 19:39:13 EDT Lines: 28 [] Laura et. al. I am new on the net and have been catching up for weeks now. Please forgive the late entry, I am not trying to fan the flames on the topic. (Catch me on net.auto for that.) I was reading in Science 84 about parents killing their off springs. I humans it has been rationalized as stress. BUT !!!!!!! After extensive field research, it has been found that primate mothers, baboons I think, will kill their new borns if their mate dies or looses leadership of the trib so they can become pregnant with the new leader's off spring and accepted as one of the leader's mates which will bring high status in primate tribes. Very interesting!! Greg Mandas (If!I!knew!where!I!can!be!found!I!would!tell!you!)