Megan & List, An issue of "Natural History" within the last 5 or 6 years had an article on the "discovery" by English birdwatchers that, when they actually started watching for female bird hanky-panky (taking off & leaving the eggs unprotected), they actually caught them at it! Just shocked the Brits. Apparently it was the evolutionary behavior pattern of "not keeping all your eggs in one basket." There's also been a "reported in the regular papers" of a British Health Services study from one midland town that demonstrated that in married & intact multi-children households significantly over 1% of the children were not the offspring of the father. Just shocked the Brits. So, while you may be able to actually prove "relationships" since 1300 AD (& if you're the Augustan Society to 1300 BC as well), that certainly doesn't mean the biological interconnection is always true. It just means the relationship is, and that's the human point of it. Just remember the T. Jefferson/Sally Heminges story from last summer! Also check out the fun but serious history by Roger Thomson, Sex in Middlesex: Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1632-1690. Guaranted to raise a smile! Bob G. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com