Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter (www.sciencedirect.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Streetlights@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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Tl;dr an undergraduate paper last year claiming females hunt just as often as males got picked up by the media and amplified before it was discovered their analysis was deeply flawed and unreliable. Here several anthropologists present a very gracious rebuttal.

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[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Some people got very angry with me about this.

[-] Streetlights@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

What was the context?

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Biology preceding sociology in the first instance. Male muscle mass and female lipid oxidation, maybe. Gendered labour across different cultures. Exceptions not disproving historical trends. Etc.