Is reading books good for the Mind ?

Well it depends on who wrote it and, I came across this book called, Mothers and others, It tells of how Apes a million years ago in Africa started learning their young to accept different genders,,

Ok David attenbough was not yet born so, How would anyone know that because, Ape can't write books,
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Tom, do you not mean they were teaching their young to accept different species, not genders? There are only two genders, male and female.

It's possibly become known because of the way they learned how to interact with other species, not of their own kind, but they could only teach their young if they themselves had been taught.

'Tis a puzzlement.

I saw a cat which was neither male or female It was ‘genderless’.
The Vet recommended it was ‘put to sleep’. And so it was.

No Mollie what I meant was, how would anyone know what apes did a million years ago ?

I agree with you about there are only 2 genders but, My granddaughter who is 22 years old told me, there are 17 different genders, Now that is fricknin, I told her, there is Adam and eve or as the Americans say,
you either got a pole or an hole, Thats it,,,,

I agree with Mollie, you are either male or female, if a man has his genitals chopped off, and the surgeon rearranges his anatomy to mimic the anatomy of a woman, and the individual concerned takes testosterone suppressing drugs and hormones such has oestrogen which makes the individual grow breasts, after all that the individual concerned is still a biological male, he may look like a woman, but he is not a woman, because he is a man.

Forensic pathology, Tom. Scientists now know what humans were doing a million years ago and, as we are supposedly connected to the apes, perhaps they can make educated judgements as to the evolution of both apes and humans. Forensics have discovered many things about humans and animals, even down to what their last meal was before they died, provided they've been well preserved in peat bogs, ice, and other substances that delay decay.

Don't forget, the apes were here long before humans, so perhaps they taught our ancestors a thing or two. Who knows?

Do you remember Desmond Morris on TV back in the 60s, who wrote a book called The Naked Ape? Now that's a good read.

Mollie I love you like a sister but, we're stretching the imagination here, Forensics and scientists spend all their time trying to prove how a wheel turns, they work out a formula of how the diameter is relative to the distance of travel and tell us of how the tangent from the base will affect the trajectory if it rolled off a cliff, then they take the pieces of the broke wheel at the bottom of the valley it fell into and work out it fell at a velocity of 33 feet per minute squared and broke up in 200 quarters,

thus proving, anyone can type facts and figures but, not alway troo

"thus proving, anyone can type facts and figures but, not alway troo "

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, a respected American primatologist and anthroplogist.
She's probably a knownowt.