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The Persistent "Man the Hunter" Myth / Faye Flam

This Is Hell!

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The Impact of Wealth Accumulation and Gender Roles

This chapter explores the influence of wealth accumulation on the rigidity of gender roles, contrasting farming communities that enforced obedience, domestic violence, and gender inequalities with hunter-gatherer societies that valued freedom. It also delves into the role of grandmothers in hunting and gathering groups, suggesting a possible link between the importance of older women and the evolution of menopause in humans.

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