Saturday, 16 May 2015

Early men and women were equal, say scientists

Early men and women were equal, say scientists

Sudy shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operate on egalitarian basis, suggesting that inequality was an aberration that came with the advent of agriculture. A study has shown that in contemporary hunter-gatherer tribes, men and women tend to have equal influence on where their groups lives and who they live with. The findings challenge the idea that sexual equality is a recent invention, suggesting that it has been the norm for humans for most of our evolutionary history.
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