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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 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.

[-] Streetlights@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

That seems somewhat unrelated to this paper about foraging societies.

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

You're joking, right?

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