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[–]jet199 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Before getting into the evidence, we need to first talk about sex and gender.

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[–]ZephirAWT[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Is The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Wrong?

Because men were supposedly the ones hunting, proponents of the Man the Hunter theory assumed evolution was acting primarily on men, and women were merely passive beneficiaries of both the meat supply and evolutionary progress. But Man the Hunter's contributors often ignored evidence, sometimes in their own data, that countered their suppositions.... Overall, females are metabolically better suited for endurance activities, whereas males excel at short, powerful burst-type activities. You can think of it as marathoners (females) versus powerlifters (males).

The wokes never disappoint... Maybe women were capable - so why don't they hunt in nowadays tribes, which make living this way? Men didn’t evolve “to hunt” and women didn’t evolve “to gather”, it’s just that this dynamic was more efficient once we reached a certain population size. Male wolves are larger and stronger than female wolves and, according to research, they are also better hunters. This is not because male wolves evolved to hunt more (wolf packs are very egalitarian), it’s because wolves have sexually dimorphic pattern seen in 99% of mammals. See also:

Can Women Outperform Men in Ultramarathons? Maybe they can, but somehow they don't want to....

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Males are larger because they not only have to hunt, they also have to fight other men.

Sexual dimorphism is more extreme in mammals which have female harems which the males then have to defend.

[–]ZephirAWT[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also protection and care of children is somewhat in contradiction with hunting capability.