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s rejected and complains miserably about her unbruised condition.

It is a sign, she is certain, that her husband does not love her.34

Yanomamo men have two great sports--hunting and war.  The

patterns of their warfare bear a strange resemblance to those of the

langur.  Yanomamo men sneak up on a neighboring village and attack.

If they are successful, they kill or chase away the men.  They leave the

sexually-capable young women unharmed.  But they move

methodically through the lean-to-like homes, grabbing babies from the

screaming captives.  Like the langurs, the Yanomamo men beat these

infants against the ground, bash their brains out on the rocks, and

make the footpaths wet with babies' blood.  They spear the older

children with the sharp ends of their bows, pinning their quivering

bodies to the ground.  Others they simply throw from the edge of a

cliff.  To the Yanomamo, this an exhilarating entertainment.  They brag

and boast as they smash fresh newborns against the stones.  When the

winning warriors have finished, not a single suckling child remains.

Then the triumphant Yanomamo men lead the captured women back

to a new life as secondary wives.35  No wonder the Yanomamo word

for marriage means "dragging something away."36

What have the Yanomamo victors accomplished?  The same

thing the langurs did.  They have freed the females from the biochemi-

cal birth control device that keeps a suckling woman from bearing new

progeny.  The Yanomamo fighters have made the wombs of their

captured consorts available to carry fresh children...their children.

The Yanomamo are not some strange aberration  dragged out of

the jungle to illustrate a far-fetched point.  In the early fourth century,

Eusebius --the first historian of the Christian Church-- summarized

what the study of history had focused on until his time: war, slaughters

for the sake of country and children.37  Hugo Grotius in 1625 published

De Jure Belli ac Pacis (Concerning The Law of War and Peace), a book that

tried to make Christian  war more humane.  In it, Grotius justified

killing children.  He cited the 137th psalm, which said, "Happy shall he

be who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock."  So Grotius

was well aware of two things.  That killing the children of the people

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s rejected and complains miserably about her unbruised condition.

It is a sign, she is certain, that her husband does not love her.34

Yanomamo men have two great sports--hunting and war.  The

patterns of their warfare bear a strange resemblance to those of the

langur.  Yanomamo men sneak up on a neighboring village and attack.

If they are successful, they kill or chase away the men.  They leave the

sexually-capable young women unharmed.  But they move

methodically through the lean-to-like homes, grabbing babies from the

screaming captives.  Like the langurs, the Yanomamo men beat these

infants against the ground, bash their brains out on the rocks, and

make the footpaths wet with babies' blood.  They spear the older

children with the sharp ends of their bows, pinning their quivering

bodies to the ground.  Others they simply throw from the edge of a

cliff.  To the Yanomamo, this an exhilarating entertainment.  They brag

and boast as they smash fresh newborns against the stones.  When the

winning warriors have finished, not a single suckling child remains.

Then the triumphant Yanomamo men lead the captured women back

to a new life as secondary wives.35  No wonder the Yanomamo word

for marriage means "dragging something away."36

What have the Yanomamo victors accomplished?  The same

thing the langurs did.  They have freed the females from the biochemi-

cal birth control device that keeps a suckling woman from bearing new

progeny.  The Yanomamo fighters have made the wombs of their

captured consorts available to carry fresh children...their children.

The Yanomamo are not some strange aberration  dragged out of

the jungle to illustrate a far-fetched point.  In the early fourth century,

Eusebius --the first historian of the Christian Church-- summarized

what the study of history had focused on until his time: war, slaughters

for the sake of country and children.37  Hugo Grotius in 1625 published

De Jure Belli ac Pacis (Concerning The Law of War and Peace), a book that

tried to make Christian  war more humane.  In it, Grotius justified

killing children.  He cited the 137th psalm, which said, "Happy shall he

be who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock."  So Grotius

was well aware of two things.  That killing the children of the people