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Ep 297: Alice Evans Studies the Great Gender Divergence

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Social Co-Evolutionary Process

The Abrahamic religions across Eurasia out promoted female chastity sexual segregation veiling virginity tests keeping men and women apart. i think that could be an important part of social cooperation and state expansion because it would have mitigated male sexual jealousy or even female sexual jealousy by keeping the sexes apart people will be less jealous of other men less likely to result in conflict. pastoralism and the introduction of the plough heightened so we see patralocality and patralini now as those societies expanded as they flourished.

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