I forget the author, but it was a woman anthropologist. She explained in her book that women, when they began to walk upright and have younger babies that needed more care for longer periods, would trade sex for more meat from the male hunters. This enabled them to survive.
Any (serious) thoughts on this?
2007-08-17 12:37:58 · 9 answers · asked by Prof Fruitcake 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Do you think the book is accurate description of how women and theri infants survived in prehistoric times? Or did not men have the emotional capacity to care for the young at that time?
2007-08-17 12:49:16 · update #1
The time that humans first began to walk upright goes back many millions of years. The few artifacts that have survived from that period are very few. A few pieces if bone.
The above " sex contract" story has to be purely guesswork and imagination. There is absolutely nothing that would bear out her story.
She accomplished what she was after. Her books seem to sell - - - and that's what it's all about.
2007-08-17 12:51:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The book is The Sex Contract: The Evolution of Human Behavior by Helen E. Fisher. I'd say this still goes on to some extent today. Look at some of the trophy wives. They've just traded meat for designer clothes and fancy cars.
2007-08-17 19:46:50 · answer #2 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to pick up the Book---"Lucy, The beginnings of Humankind." by Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey. Go to chapter 16 entitled "Is it a matter of sex" Read the chapter and in particular pay attention to pages 330 to 340. The discussion there will interest you. I will try to find the book that you have there at my library. I find the subject of sex in primitive man interesting because it believe it is also related to the development of the organization of religion. I am wiccan so I believe in the presence of the divine but see the organization of religion as man made and harmful.
2007-08-17 19:59:40 · answer #3 · answered by Praire Crone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some women do that today in exchange for Louis Vuitton bags. If this writer is right, we haven't evolved, but degraded. That being said there is nothing but thin air to support her theory. Anyway, the book sells well.
2007-08-17 19:46:46 · answer #4 · answered by Mutations Killed Darwin Fish 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trading sex for meat...lol. Wouldn't it be nice if that were the case today? "Hello, woman. I'll give you my meat if you have sex with me." I know you wanted serious thoughts, I'm sorry. I just don't have any other thoughts on the subject.
2007-08-17 19:46:28 · answer #5 · answered by Holy Blasphemist 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its possible, and would explain why human women dont go through heat cycles like other animals do.
2007-08-17 19:42:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hahahahahahaha.....contract....
2007-08-17 19:43:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not much has changed since caveman days. Women still do anything to avoid working.
2007-08-17 19:44:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
more meat? they shoulda asked me
2007-08-17 19:46:34 · answer #9 · answered by Benjamin Peret 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋