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- From: kyrsten@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Kyrsten Swazey)
- Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
- Subject: Re: Jared Diamond's _The Third Chimpanzee_
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.172422.21099@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:24:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.050047.113@csis.dit.csiro.au> <728014592snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
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- gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick) writes:
-
- >My only argument has been that all these indicators that ovulation is
- >taking place in human females are sufficient to have the hypothesis
- >that in human females ovulation is hidden rejected.
-
- >In other words, sufficient evidence is plainly available that we are
- >obliged to accept the null hypothesis. Whether you subsequently wish
- >to act against me in some way, or have undue aspersions cast upon my
- >reputation, is an entirely different matter.
-
- >I would suggest to you that your public attempts to do so would rather
- >reflect upon you finally, yes?
-
- >Gil
-
- I am not sure how i see that human female ovulation is *not* hidden.
- "Discharge" is not necessarily indicative of ovulation; there are other
- factors which also produce this. To any given female, then, this is a
- tenuous indicator of ovulation, during many cycles not obvious to me at
- least. Being female, i can say that the only indicator i may rely on is
- a brief sharp pain in my right side at what i have come to believe is
- the moment of ovulation.
- Variations in diet, excercize and sleep patterns will cause every part
- of my cycle to go haywire, yet i do not think that this is a visible
- phenomena.
- I think the fact that it is my own body and i can not always tell when I
- am about to menstrate, much less when I am fertile, says a lot.
- Certainly with much attention the time of ovulation and its indicators,
- such as a change of body temperature, can be discerned. However, it is
- *not* readily apparent and *can* only be discerned through close
- attention and/or study.
-
- --kyrsten
-
-