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Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter (www.sciencedirect.com)

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Tl;dr an undergraduate paper last year claiming females hunt just as often as males got picked up by the media and amplified before it was discovered their analysis was deeply flawed and unreliable. Here several anthropologists present a very gracious rebuttal.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good question, I didn't even consider that I just used the same language that was in the title without thinking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Oh for sure, I wasn't trying to like come at you or anything, I understand the context because of the rest of your post and it's very clear you weren't being "bad" or whatever. It just got my brain spinning.