Also, we've discovered lots of female figurines and not all of them have the...attributes associated with fertility and not all the figurines are female; many of them are male, a lot of them are even androgynous.
In fact, androgynous names are increasing faster in red states than blue, perhaps because liberal parents tend to be older and therefore, less open to breaking conventions.
And actually there's an Elizabethan legal expert who describes what has to happen if someone who he calls a hermaphrodite chooses to become a man, then he can inherit the estate.
The leading anatomist at the time declared that it was probably some kind of abnormal growth -- (Laughter) and that any woman who had one was probably a hermaphrodite.
He meant, perhaps, that the androgynous mind is resonant and porous; that it transmits emotion without impediment;that it is naturally creative, incandescent and undivided.
Thus, the high percentage of hermaphroditic selfers in the Fertile Crescent flora aided early farmers, because it meant that a high percentage of the wild flora had a reproductive biology convenient for humans.