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Journal Entry 22-Oct-2006
Mating Rituals Of The Neanderthal
Waking up and adorning myself with my grease covered costume and repairing to the place where the "Ship" is today, I decided that it was imperative to study the gender differentiation among the longshoremen and to attempt to determine their mating rituals.
I had originally considered that Neanderthal, in violation of most biological principles of higher animal forms, were asexual. . There appears to be no link between the presence or absence of silver and gold items piercing most visible places on one's body. Hair seems to be of various lengths. Primitive inking of the skin seems de riguer. The clothing is the same for most of them, orange, baggy, grease covered, smelly.
So today I was given a partner Neanderthal to work with. We stood forth under the large metal object (They call it a Ka-rain) and watched with uncomprehending expressions on our faces as chariots pulled up, were given the offering, and then would move off to some other location on the dock. At this location, another large metal object (known, apparently, as a Tophan Dler) would pull it off the chariot and put it into a big stack. I can only hope that someday I will determine why these people compulsively stack large objects.
Putting my fist out and expressing my morpheme to my partner, who did similarly, I was welcomed into the ritual grouping.
As the day wore on, I surreptitiously kept copious notes of their behavior. Today I decided to watch my partner. As the chariots would come around, he would wander up to them, greet the driver by expressing his morpheme to them, and they would do similarly back. Guttaral sounds would emanate from their mouths, only to be drowned out by the general background noise.
The day wore on. While I became tired and hungry and thirsty, I knew that people in the future will build on my research and perhaps make it a cornerstone of some spiritual or philosophical breakthrough. I waited patiently, making sure to never remove my sunglasses for fear of showing a non-morpheme expressing look from my eyes. The clip-board holding ones eventually began to make the slashing gesture accross their neck to the ones in the crane. As they pulled up to us, I noticed my partner expressing his morpheme in greeting and giving 4 of the 7 chariot drivers a small white piece of paper. Additionally, he would make a sound I had not heard them make before which sounded like "Calm ee." An overpowering smell of pheremones wafted through the air, and I knew that this was the mating ritual I had been looking for. So as the day ended, I began to examine the chariot drivers for differences. I was unable to determine any physical characteristics which would make them stand out from the three who were not given the white piece of paper.
My window of opportunity was closing. So I made my move and found some small article of clothing, old can of the beverage they drink, whatever, for each of the 7 chariot drivers, as well as my partner. This I took with me to the lab and had DNA tests performed on it. Sure enough, my partner was male, the 4 who received the white piece of paper were of the female gender, while the 3 who did not were male.
While I now understand how the Neanderthal "hoo kup," I now need to research into the methods they themselves use to determine whether they are male or female. I have seen no signs to suggest that my partner used DNA analysis to find out who was female, but 100% success rate in determing the correct gender implies there is a method to what seems like incomprehensible madness to me.
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