Human brains are, first and foremost, kinship engines. In senile dementia, gradually all knowledge and ability drops out—including names of your children. But you still remember who’s related to whom. That’s the last thing to go.
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native-informants as self-selected group of natives that are willing/able to talk to anthropologists. the natives with more, uh, "autistic" tendencies (analogously or literally, I don't know, it probably doesn't matter) just aren't going to talk to anthropologists.
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Interesting point!
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Yup! Fantastic picture of the ibises, btw! BTW, this species was once common in Europe, believed extinct (and possibly mythical) for a century or two, and rediscovered in North Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_bald_ibis …
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