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[This article was submitted to the International Socialism Journal in 1992. Without acknowledgement it was not published.] Simply bloody A reply to Chris Harman’s review of Chris Knight, Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture (Yale University Press, 1991) Lionel D. Sims Chris Harman’s review of Knight’s book, “ Blood Relations” 1 , raises five main criticisms. First, where Knight depicts primate co-operation as fundamentally undermined by sexual jealousies and conflict, Harman sees primate social systems as largely harmonious. Secondly, Harman disputes any necessary connection between the pursuit by males of genetic fitness and philandering. Thirdly, human females _ according to Harman _ are not unique but resemble other primates in the form taken by their reproductive

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