bed time?

[judgejeff]

I think MC runs are actually becoming more fun for me. As long as there is ample alcohol available, I have a great time sitting in the back and making snide and semi-subtle remarks about the raid and its leaders. This probably means I'll never be a raid leader, but that's fine by me. Maybe I'll be like Trykus...get epiced out, find a lower guild

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[8bitnintendo]

I don't remember which book Jane first appears in... Xenocide? Speaker for the Dead?

[judgejeff]

First I read Ender's Game. Now I'm reading Speaker for the Dead, and Jane is in it. Amy was confused about the actual order of the books. She thought maybe Xenocide came before Speaker for the Dead. I don't know since I haven't read it.
Here's a great quote from Speaker of the Dead:
"Question 1: Why is marriage necessary for anyone?
Fools say, why should we marry? Love is the only bond my lover and I need. To them I say: marriage is not a covenant bwetween a man and a woman; even the beasts cleave together and produce their young. Marriage is a covenant between a man and a woman on one side and their community on the other. To marry according to the law of a community is to become a full citizen; to refuse marriage is to become a stranger, a child, an outlaw, a slave, or a traitor. The one constant in every society of humankind is that only those who obey the laws, tabus, and customs of marriage are true adults."

[judgejeff]

Hey, I never said I agreed with the quote. But I still think it's interesting. Know your enemy and all that.
I looked up monogamy in primates, and to my surprise I found out that you were right: there ARE socially mongamous primates. However, follow this link

http://www.trinity.edu/rnadeau/FYS/Barash%20on%20monogamy.htm

and you'll see that there is some dispute about whether social monogamy equals sexual monogamy.

This just goes to show that there really is no "never" and no "always" in biology.