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dissimilarity in tastes, necessities, occupations, or 

 modes of life to cause them to leave each other's 

 company in the intervals between the periodic 

 stimulations of the instinct. In other words, 

 there was an active, powerful force continually 

 drawing them together, and nothing to draw them 

 apart. 



Neither was it likely, when an attraction had been 

 once established between two of opposite sex, that 

 the affection of either would become alienated 

 through the intervention of a more favored specimen 

 of the other sex. For the number of living individ- 

 uals of the race was very small, and for these few 

 it had survival value to remain scattered by ones 

 and twos, or at most in small family groups. It is, 

 therefore, a safe conclusion that after two of opposite 

 sex had been companions they would remain so 

 unless the exigencies of pregnancy parted them. 

 Until that time, that is, during many days, weeks, 

 or months, they would hunt together, battle against 

 common enemies, seek food, eat, drink, sleep, and 

 rest together. In this way, and during this long 

 time of companionship, they would become more 

 and more accustomed to each other's natures and 

 habits, until little by little, through progressing 

 pregnancy, the first feeble symptoms of approaching 

 incapacity would begin to show in the actions of 

 the female. A little less efficiency and agility in 

 taking her share in the contests with enemies, a 

 little less ease in holding her own in flight from 



