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.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/07/01/1184749528/men-are-hunters-women-are-gatherers-that-was-the-assumption-a-new-study-upends-i

#science #anthropology #genderBias

@suvidu
"โ€ฆthe 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 @suvidu Funny. My next question is: what did those men do, now itโ€™s clear they didnโ€™t hunt?
@Esssie31 @msbellows @suvidu they also hunted? Everyone who could hunt did?
@Colman @msbellows @suvidu did you read the article? In societies 79% of the hunters were female ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ
@Esssie31 @msbellows @suvidu no, it said that in 79% of societies studied, women hunted. Thatโ€™s not the same thing at all.