An excavation from the Andean Highlands in Peru of the remains of a woman reveals that hunting tools were buried alongside her. The tools recovered include six stone projectiles and 24 other stone artifacts
This should have been obvious. The unique human capacity to hunt comes from our ability to multiply force through the use of tools and numbers. Any society relying on these abilities (in the time of the sling and the atlatl at least) would need to fully utilize everyone available regardless of physical strength or stature to feed everyone. It should be obvious that prehistoric men also did a lot of "gathering"
It's extremely easy to come up with plausible stories about why some human behaviour might have evolved. It's much harder to find evidence that those behaviours (a) actually are genetic traits, (b) actually are widespread, and (c) evolved for the reason you think they did. This is why fields like sociobiology and evolutionary psychology have been so troubled and controversial.
Having said that, I don't think your story is plausible at all. If it were really so advantageous to have more surviving female offspring than male ones, you'd think we would just have evolved a different sex ratio at birth, instead of a complex social mechanism for getting more men than women killed through hunting.
Also I don't know if it's even the case that hunting is universally a more dangerous activity than "gathering". You're probably more likely to die climbing up a tree to find fruit than you are by hunting rabbits.
I feel like it makes sense on an individual emotional level too, who do I want with me on a dangerous mission more than the woman I love, my greatest ally, who gives me strength just by looking at them? Idk I just feel like if I was going out to throw spears at an animal I’d want my love with me
This should have been obvious. The unique human capacity to hunt comes from our ability to multiply force through the use of tools and numbers. Any society relying on these abilities (in the time of the sling and the atlatl at least) would need to fully utilize everyone available regardless of physical strength or stature to feed everyone. It should be obvious that prehistoric men also did a lot of "gathering"
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It's extremely easy to come up with plausible stories about why some human behaviour might have evolved. It's much harder to find evidence that those behaviours (a) actually are genetic traits, (b) actually are widespread, and (c) evolved for the reason you think they did. This is why fields like sociobiology and evolutionary psychology have been so troubled and controversial.
Having said that, I don't think your story is plausible at all. If it were really so advantageous to have more surviving female offspring than male ones, you'd think we would just have evolved a different sex ratio at birth, instead of a complex social mechanism for getting more men than women killed through hunting.
Also I don't know if it's even the case that hunting is universally a more dangerous activity than "gathering". You're probably more likely to die climbing up a tree to find fruit than you are by hunting rabbits.
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....the women die through child birth, that's why they don't have more
nearly every hunter gatherer society we know of has pretty strict gender roles, it's just how the species happened to evolve
I feel like it makes sense on an individual emotional level too, who do I want with me on a dangerous mission more than the woman I love, my greatest ally, who gives me strength just by looking at them? Idk I just feel like if I was going out to throw spears at an animal I’d want my love with me
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Fucking your comrade and making them watch your back as option B.