The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong - eviltoast
  • ExLisper@linux.community
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    1 year ago

    No, one of the theories is actually that early homo sapiens groups were mostly closely related and interbred often. That’s what have them advantage over other species. We can see evidence of that in the DNA. Men fighting men came later, probably with first settlements and dependence on local resources.

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      1 year ago

      You mean to tell me incest is what led to the success of the human race? That… actually explains a lot /s

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        No, it’s the opposite. Tribe was pretty much a big family. Neanderthals were reproducing mostly inside the tribe. Homo sapiens were reproducing with neighbouring tribes more often than Neanderthals. They had less incest and more varied genes. But this means that people had a lot of family in neighbouring tribe (like uncles and cousins) so they were less likely to fight them. That’s the theory.