The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)

by Jean M. Auel

He started by pounding whole datura plants between two stones. The difficult part was estimating the quantity and proportion of leaves, stems, and flowers to use.

Don't try this at home. Seriously. There's a rhyme about the nightshade family alkaloids: Red as a beet, full as a jug, dry as a bone, blind as a bat, hot as hell, mad as a hatter. Your pulse and blood pressure rise, you retain fluids but can't urinate, your temperature rises but you can't sweat, your vision fades & you experience unpleasant delusions. Stick to shrooms.

They were slow to adapt. Inventions were accidental and often not utilized. If something new happened to them, it could be added to their backlog of information; but change was accomplished only with great effort, and once it was forced on them, they were adamant in following the new course. It came too hard to alter it again. But a race with no room for learning, no room for growth, was no longer equipped for an inherently changing environment, and they had passed beyond the point of developing in a different way. That would be left for a newer form, a different experiment of nature.

To the Clan, a new life was formed by the ubiquitous essences of the totems, and any relationship between sexual activity and childbirth was beyond conception.

I think this is a misconception (hah)! I think animals at all levels understand this.

Why does water always come to her eyes when she thinks I don’t love her? And why should her weak eyes always make me want to do something for her?

Tears contain hormones & pheromones that have been shown to lower serum testosterone levels.