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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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

Some people got very angry with me about this.

[–] Streetlights@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What was the context?

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 1 year ago (1 children)

That seems somewhat unrelated to this paper about foraging societies.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You're joking, right?