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epiphiny43 -> RE: human evolution: women could have been in charge (5/19/2016 2:30:13 AM)
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A rather ironic username given the awareness of actual human societies through our technological evolution. Too much Saturday cartoons and pop-psychology from your local political propagandists??
Most small group hunting and gathering societies, the very ones that supposedly 'outcompeted' the other various primates, were largely matriarchies. More mixed than pure, females had roles and control, males had other areas. The emergence of patriarchies came with agriculture and animal husbandry, which are social and technological evolutions, not genetic, and not with far earlier group violence and competition where supposedly male physical dominance would prevail. Once there was yearly stored excess wealth (Food), and control of water became the instrument of power, power concentrated in the hands of a few. Patriarchs emerged, trade on a large scale developed, a military could be supported, and war as a social institution developed.
This is extremely late in the genetic evolution of Homo sapiens, a mere blink in the time real changes in the DNA, RNA and mitochondrial codes require. The later dominance of male dominated Western societies over more varied social structure pre-colonial societies had everything to do with material technology and disease histories and nothing genetic, other than acquired immunity to a variety of diseases developed in Europe. Guns, Germs and Steel covered that remarkably well.
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