The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong

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The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong
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Those tribes would have still been formed after the development of agriculture, which is when stricter gender roles started to be formed.

Yes but no. In that they don't seem to practice agriculture, and also they're in the middle of the Amazon rainforest or that island off the coast of India and have been for millenia. The Inuit also had strict gender roles, no agriculture, but very "foreign" to an European those roles were.

formed, no, but you could definitely make an argument for the influence of agriculture. would be kind of hard to prove, though

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