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afterbirthIn mammals, the placenta, umbilical cord, and ruptured membranes that become detached from the uterus and expelled soon after birth. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Between 3 and 7 days afterbirth, macaque babies smacked their lips
and stuck out their tongues just as an experimenter did, the researchers
report in the September PLoS Biology. (16) Sir James
Frazer, writing in the early 20th century, noted that "even in
Europe many people still believe that a person's destiny is more or
less bound up with that of his navel-string or afterbirth. " As a narrative of affiliation,
incorporation, and adoption, the afterbirth story dramatizes the
cultural, intellectual, and psychological experience of replacing
"habits of feeling, thinking, and acting by another set of habits
which belonged to strangers . |
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