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Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter (www.sciencedirect.com)

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Tl;dr an undergraduate paper last year claiming females hunt just as often as males got picked up by the media and amplified before it was discovered their analysis was deeply flawed and unreliable. Here several anthropologists present a very gracious rebuttal.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Biology preceding sociology in the first instance. Male muscle mass and female lipid oxidation, maybe. Gendered labour across different cultures. Exceptions not disproving historical trends. Etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That seems somewhat unrelated to this paper about foraging societies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

You're joking, right?