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...times and all peoples, but it does strongly suggest that in the Stone Age family, Dad-the-hunter was not the only provider. The occasional antelope haunch might be a tasty treat, but as Hawkes and her co-workers conclude about the Hadza, "it is women's foraging, not men's hunting, that differentially affects their own families' nutritional welfare." If the grandma hypothesis holds up, we may have to conclude that the male-female pair bond was not quite so central to human survival as the evolutionary psychologists assume. The British anthropologist Chris Knight--who is, incidentally, male--suggests...
...hunt, the children will have to come too, and all that squalling and chattering would surely scare off the game. This inference was based on a particular style of hunting, familiar from Hemingway novels and common to the New England woods in October, in which a small band of men trek off into the wild and patiently stalk their prey, a deer or two at a time. But there is another way to get the job done known as "communal hunting," in which the entire group--women, men and children--drive the animals over a cliff or into...
...rather than softer, biodegradable goods like baskets, fabrics and nets. But in archaeologically well-preserved prehistoric sites, such as those found underwater or in dry caves, the soft goods predominate over the durable by a ratio of about 20 to 1. If the hard stuff was the work of men, then "we've been missing the children, the women, the old people," she asserts. Thanks to Soffer's sharp eye, Paleolithic net hunting is no longer invisible, and in net hunting, Soffer says, "everybody participates...
...Soffer's discovery, which is too recent to have found its way into Angier's or Hales' book, will disconcert many feminists as well as sociobiologists. After all, the gratifying thing about man-the-hunter was that he helped locate all the violence and related mischief on the men's side of the campfire: no blood on our hands! But there are other reasons to doubt the eternal equation of masculinity with aggression and violence, femininity with gentleness and a taste for green salads. In ancient Greece and Sumer the deities of the hunt, Artemis and Ninhursag, were female--extremely...
...Men are randier and more promiscuous than women? David Kendall didn't use it, but this could have been the biological brief for the President's defense during the impeachment proceedings, as propounded by M.I.T. cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker in the New Yorker. It's in the male's genetic self-interest to impregnate as many females as possible, while the female usually can produce only a dozen or so offspring in her lifetime no matter how much she messes around, so why should she try? Furthermore, the female consort of man-the-hunter didn't dare cheat...