Re: Sex as Parallel Communication

Chris Hind (bholat@earthlink.net)
Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:26:46 -0700


>That sex seems to mean so very much for us, is an artefact of evolution.
>Should replication, as it is to be expected, to become detached from
>coitus, the act itself is going to become an atavism.
>
>A lovable atavism maybe, yet an atavism nontheless.

Sorry but could u please explain the definition of atavism and coitus?
Sometimes other peoples vocabulary even extends above mine.