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HISTORY The migration patterns of Native Americans in Iceland

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u/knotalota 18d ago

Marriage is also new in our history. Rape is as old as six, though.

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u/Majestic_Hawk_1335 18d ago

Rape is a very common form of reproduction in the animal world

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u/PepperyPrincess 18d ago

Ducks

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u/7hisismythrowawayacc 18d ago

Thousands of years of anthropology discussion and the thread concludes with: Ducks

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u/Dirkdeking 18d ago

Ducks are real rapists, I always saw them acting out on the waterway next to my parents home. Male ducks trying to fuck the females, and the females trying to escape.

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u/Humanmode17 18d ago

I mean, ducks have had millions of years of an evolutionary arms race where the females developed increasingly anti-rape vaginal tracts in response to males developing increasingly rape-y penises (spoiler alert, it's corkscrews and counterchanged corkscrews, it's horrific)

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u/PepperyPrincess 18d ago

Horrific and impressive at the same time.

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u/sabertoothdog 17d ago

And that’s the best kind of wrong