Oh my goodness. This blows my mind. I love it. Please read it. Here are some things I just learned from this text:
"Everybody had just taken this man-the-#hunter hypothesis for granted. So no one really decided to evaluate it," says Haas. "It wasn't really a question on a lot of people's minds."
In 79% of societies, women did hunt.
And my favourite:
The best hunters were grandmothers.
@suvidu
"…the myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gatherer is probably the second most enduring myth that naturalizes the inferiority of women."
Men made this up to supress women. I think.
@Esssie31 @suvidu Funny: I've always considered the hunter-gatherer distinction to be pro-feminist, because even if there once was a need for men to be larger and stronger in order to survive "out in the world," that time is long past.
My next question is: if men weren't going longer distances, hunting larger more dangerous animals, and encountering more dangerous predators/enemy humans etc. as a result, then why did men evolve to be physically larger and stronger on average than women?
@msbellows
Well, it would mean women were more or less unable to survive without men in the wild. I do not consider this "pro-feminist".
And we never know why things evolved in a certain way. Evolution has no aim and happens by chance. Maybe it is just because in the species we evolved from, the males had to fight each other for the possibility to mate.
@Esssie31
@Esssie31
This is a possibility. But as male mammals can never be sure it's really their offspring, I would rather put my chances on them fighting for mating possibilities. The more, the better.
But we'll never know for sure :-)
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