ANTHR110 Lecture : Full Semester of Lecture notes, some summaries of readings
27 Jan 2012
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Coattails theory: traits are selected for in men, and women survive by clinging to their coattails. Studies have shown that female humans and animals are not born with a maternal instinct, it is learned. In brazil some mothers will purposefully neglect children who seem unlikely to survive. Sexual selection there is a range in the power that females when discriminating between different mates. It has been suggested that meat was not actually a part of the human diet in the paleolithic phase, or most of the meat was obtained by scavenging. Females may have been at the centre of the community in the paleolithic phase, with males being more willing to share their resources with those who shared with them in their youth, such as their mother and sisters. There may be hundreds of menstrual houses that remain unidentified due to male archaeologists being uncomfortable addressing the topic.
