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I can't imagine our species being able to survive and thrive like we did with risk seeking women. It takes about 15 years for a human infant to become independent and there are a lot bad things that can happen in 15 years even if you play it as safe as possible. One can argue that the roles can be shared or swapped, but that would be against specialization, hugely complicate mate selection, and it would break evolution by natural selection so no sex would excel at anything.

Now all of the above is really pretty conservative thinking, bound to ruffle some feathers and all that. So circling back to my first sentence, can anybody imagine things being different but with the same outcome?

parent trabant00 3 years ago

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