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From: pan@well.UUCP (Philip Nicholls)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Sexual selection
Message-ID: <5652@well.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 88 05:40:17 GMT
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Reply-To: pan@well.UUCP (Philip Nicholls)
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>And my pet theory
>has for some time located this during some ice age, perhaps around
>the Homo sapiens emergence period ~ 40-30,000 BP. 

This is very interesting.  However, if we are to assume that male
dominance evolved at this time, then how is one to explain societies
that are still hunter-gather, and which do have male dominant social
systems by matrifocal kinship.

It also assumes that Homo sapiens evolved in Europe or in areas affected
by glaciation.  There is every indication now, based on mtDNA stuff, that
Homo sapiens first diverged in Africa.
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