Posted: Apr 08, 2020 5:26 pm
felltoearth wrote:Spearthrower wrote:
Considering how even within recorded history, most human females were married young and turned into incessant baby-rearing machines, and given that our ancient ancestors lived shorter, tougher lives, I think it's safe to assume that in ancestral hominids and H sapiens until very recently (perhaps even still), women were the primary care-givers to infants and children, and consequently took part in safer activities.
Not to quibble (and I assume you meant other activities) but I wouldn’t include childbirth in the category of “safer” activities.
Aye well, that's not a behavior that entails any sociocultural division of labour!
