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#556 - Rob Henderson - How Men Compete For Status

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Why Women Don't Band Together Like Men Do

Why do you think it is that women don't seem to band together against an outgroup foe in the same way that men do? It's an interesting question. One possibility and perhaps the most, I'll believe that cultural variation is responsible for, you know, like human nature. If you show me a tribe in which women band together to capture men as husbands; there's literally no example in the human record of women ever doing that. There's another story from the anthropologist, Napoleon, Shagnon, his last name was C-H-A-G-N-O-N. He talks about how he would spend time with the Yanawama in South America.

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