• Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    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"

      • nemu [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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.

        • modsarefascist [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          ....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

    • CarlsJrMarx [love/loves, des/pair]
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      4 years ago

      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