On 10/17/07, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20071008&s=pinker100807&c=1
>
> Why we curse.
There is a (rather long-ish) book titled "Shadows of Forgotten
Ancestors" in which Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan make a point that it is
a fairly common primate practice for males to mount (can't recall the
finer details) other males in a pseudosexual demonstration of
dominance (at the end of a fight?). Sagan notes that while this
practice is not prevalent among humans, the verbal equivalent ("Fu*k
you" with an implicit I) has taken its place. I think he used this as
one argument to assert our inherent primate nature.
