When Lewis and Clark met Native Americans, they also gave a formal speech. Read part of a speech that was given by Clark to Yellowstone Native Americans: Children I take you all by the hand as the children of your Great father the President of the U. States of America who is the great chief of all the white people towards the [rising] sun.

Children Your great father the Chief of the white people intends to build a house and fill it with such things as you may want and exchange with you for your skins & furs at a very low price. & has [directed] me [to] enquire of you, at what place would be most convenient for to build this house.

Who is the “Great Father” in the speech? How does this speech show the goal of the Lewis and Clark mission?

The Great Father is the President of the United states of America

Explanation:

In the first paragraph it gives the

Children I take you all by the hand as the children of your Great father the President of the U. States of America who is the great chief of all the white people towards the [rising] sun.

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.

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