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Marriage: The algorithm to share a chocolate

The concept of getting married, loosely speaking, without going into details or googled timelines started somewhere in the tribes. It began when humans were not evolved enough to rationalize a system, yet enough to feel a need for the same. It started not at a precise time but over generations. It ran its life as it was being established that the male species have to be worthy of being superior (usually physically) while females had to be worthy of being wooed (again usually physically which included aspects of aesthetics and characteristics of child -bearing ability). While this equation was loud and clear in a very short span of time, what took much longer was the idea of making this known. What we simply call  'put a ring' was what took ages as we were not instantly aware of the importance of giving it a structure or making it public.  I have spent time in a Masai village myself where they told me that in old times the men would go on a lion hunt when the age was 'r