10-14-2016, 01:24 PM
Men are stronger than women? Why? Because we are not a monogamous primates. Polygamous primates (e.g. gorillas) feature males who are much larger than females. Monagamous apes (like orangutans) feature same-sized males and females. In-between primates (e.g. chimps, humans) feature males that are somewhat larger than females.
In hunter-gather societies, the gatherers, often females are responsible for providing most of the bands food needs. The larger sized males evolve their size to fight for and then hold on to mates. If I had to guess, I would think the reason why men engaged in hunting is that it was a way to keep them busy and out of the female's hair and also to allow them to settle the "who gets to fuck who" problem with minimum mayhem.
Human evolved ginormous brains for managing social relationships. Like chimps we fought wars, with is the primary function of males in early human bands. We got good at organizing into larger social groups, far, far beyond anything that chimps can do, and from that has come our cultural greatness.
In hunter-gather societies, the gatherers, often females are responsible for providing most of the bands food needs. The larger sized males evolve their size to fight for and then hold on to mates. If I had to guess, I would think the reason why men engaged in hunting is that it was a way to keep them busy and out of the female's hair and also to allow them to settle the "who gets to fuck who" problem with minimum mayhem.
Human evolved ginormous brains for managing social relationships. Like chimps we fought wars, with is the primary function of males in early human bands. We got good at organizing into larger social groups, far, far beyond anything that chimps can do, and from that has come our cultural greatness.