True Garvey's Africa, I think that is the general answer to the question, no matter what the specifics would be of that scenario. If human reproduction had always been that way (3x longer than it is now) then no one would know the difference, and it would just be normal.
On another note, Dr. Llaila Afrika talks in his book African Holistic Health about the natural reproduction of humans. He says some interesting things that are contrary to how humans currently behave sexually and experience reproduction. 1) That humans are supposed to engage in sexual intercourse during the day, not at night. Because humans are not nocturnal, and other mammals mate during the day, he says that humans are disrupting their hormones by engaging in sex during the night hours. 2) That women are not supposed to menstruate. He calls it hemorraging, and says that it has nothing to do with ovulation. He claims that the hemorraging is caused by imbalances such as the one mentioned above. 3) That the female ovulation cycle used to be synced to the sun, not the moon. That there was a time before the moon was in Earth's area, and that during this time women did not hemorrage, and that the cycle was a different length than it is now that the moon is affecting women. 4) That human reproduction is only supposed to occur once every three years. That women would devote the time after birth to feeding their new child, not engaging in sex with the man, until the three year mark (three years after conception of the child, as I gather). Then, as a community, all of the couples would mate again, and therefore all of the children in the community would be roughly of an age group with each other, all of them come of age at the same time, etc. This is the relevance of the group initiations and ceremonies.
I'm not sure how true any of those statements are, just sharing the words of the teacher because they are relevant to this thread's original question, especially the last point.
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