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Study Says Sex-Based Roles Gave Modern Humans an Edge

Dec 08, 2006 14:10

Stefan Lovgren ( Read more... )

gender roles, neanderthals, hunter-gatherers, evolution, paleolithic

Comments 4

kenosis December 9 2006, 01:43:19 UTC

It's impossible to escape economies of scale. I wish Paul Krugman would read this article.

eiaboca December 9 2006, 05:20:47 UTC

Interesting. But now we don't need them anymore. We can invent new roles and evolve in new ways.

tychoish December 9 2006, 20:49:12 UTC

and by evolution, you mean development.

I'm just a lowly psychology student, but I suspect there's reason to belive that egalatariansim didn't die out with the neanderthals....

sonnyo December 10 2006, 00:35:03 UTC

was also a lowly psychology student, i found that labor isn't necessarily divided according to sex. men did what they could and females did what they could. men hunted, gathered, and/or farmed. women made everything from raw resources and refined any attempt at survival any man ever provided. according to neoteny (montagu), women evolved care-giving behaviors in particular (certain kinds of labor ( ... )