A new study rebukes notion that only men were hunters in ancient times. It found little evidence to support the idea that roles were assigned specifically to each sex. Women were not only physically capable of being hunters, but there is little evidence to support that they were not hunting.
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Posted in r/science by u/mvea • 1,203 points and 306 comments

They’re mostly getting dunked on, but they’re wriggling around all over the thread raging about science being made “political.”

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  • KusimulkkuEnglish
    22·
    11 months ago

    The top comment is

    More people able to bring back dinner. It makes sense.

    And overall people seem to be agreeing with the comment. Dunno if this post was way before that happened or what but it seems to be the opposite what the title says

    • Orannis62 [ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      The next top level comment down from that one is “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, let’s keep believing the old hypothesis anyway” malding lol

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      It’s been long enough the mods may have cleaned it up, but there was a lot of brainwormed shit downthread. There are some quotes of it elsewhere in this thread.