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Neanderthals were humans.
Guess this will be passed off as textbook science soon because some researcher or professor guesses this is what happened.
I remember my professors in the late 70's teaching us, as indisputable fact, that (a) world hydrocarbon energy supplies would be all but gone by 2000 (that was always a convenient date), and (b) there would be mass world starvation due to insufficient foodstuffs by the same date.
Like global warming and evolution, this was nothing but a bandwagon of fools parading as science.
All things are possible, but this is really educated guesswork. And one thing in academia is that people have to keep thinking up new ideas, because it's publish or perish.
Management will be happy, but the AFL-CIO and Teamsters object.
The article claims that sex roles did not exist until they were invented as part of a food-gathering technique.
Laughable.
And we thought that the UAW was progressive. Yabba Dabba Doo!
Thank you kind sir.
Oh, that can't be right. The world is only 4000 year old.
Primitive humans, however, sought their food in completely undifferentiated mobs, until someone did a cost-benefit analysis and decided that the Return On Investment of sex-based roles might have help the band's bottomline.
Seriously: My daughter's textbook already covers this. But I suppose it's in the textbook due to a Marxian "Division of Labor" theory and did not actually have supporting evidence. Now, perhaps, they think they may have some evidence. Does it matter? They were teaching it to children as a fact, even when it was just a theory.
did the nenaderthal women - being part of the unisex hunting party - ever brign the kids - you know - to breast feed?
sounds like junk science to me.
The inherent biological fact that only females give birth and suckle the young - the latter period lasting several years for humans (Neanderthalis sapiens as well as homo sapiens) - means that human females of child-bearing age did not leave their young children to hunt big game.
So this article's underlying premise is wrong.
Sounds like BS to me. Neanderthal women and children were almost certainly less-agressive, smaller, and slower than the men, and probably developed the same (obvious) division of labor. They have no evidence to the contrary.
"So simple, even a caveman can do it".
Yes, humans of all ages took part in hunting. The two-year-olds would try to throw rocks at the mammoths...when the mammoths were rolling on the ground laughing, the grown-up humans would club them to death.
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Interesting theory. Is grant money involved?