Posted on 05/22/2010 9:00:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
"Other animals have antlers or long canines and claws," said Puts. "Why don't we have them?"
According to Puts, men do have weapons. They make them. Bows and arrows, spears, knives -- men have always manufactured weapons.
Other male traits also seem to imply competition. Males have thicker jawbones, which may have come from men hitting each other and the thickest-boned men surviving. Competition may explain why males have more robust skulls and brow ridges than women...
According to Puts, humans and chimpanzees create male coalitions that are often strengthened by kinship. Coalitions can help males defend females from other males. However, when external forces are absent, these same males can compete with each other for mates.
These ideas may seem to paint a rather bleak picture of human nature with men duking it out among themselves for most of human evolution.
"Things are different for us now in many ways," said Puts. "It's heartening to think that human behavior is flexible enough that the right social institutions can increase equality and peace."
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
LOL!
Puts a putz!
Hey Joe!
It’s another biker bar thread!
;-D
It’s not widely known, but I posed for that painting. That’s my face, third from the left on the bottom.
I am thinking that the pronounced jaws for men came about because the bottle opener had not yet been invented.
This caused the non-skirt wearing prehistoric man to have to open their beers with their teeth.
Wonder if I can get a grant or something to do follow-up research on this scientific subject?
Speaking on behalf of prehistoric Scotsmen, I encourage you to expand your study to include us skirt wearers.;-)
So, did you get to be present when the babe posed? “Here, Miss, let me help you with your robe . . .”
“She” turned out to be a cross-dressing prom “queen” from Florida. ;’)
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