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Raymond Hames's avatar

You hit the nail on the head when you summarized "Perhaps something as mundane as the tendency of science popularisers, even scientists themselves, to slip from less to none and from more to all."

Nice to read a journalist who has the proper skepticism and background to write about this issue.

A long scholarly piece is being developed that explores the recent spate of articles on women and hunting.

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David Martin's avatar

I kept having flashbacks to the "Clan Of The Cave Bear" (Earth Children) books while listening to this episode. I think that was written in the early 80's so the idea has been debated for a while. I am always curious as to where the author got her inspirations. I wrote and asked her about where the boat building ideas came from, and she replied something to the effect of "common sense"

One of the many other interesting ideas in that series was that the discovery of men's roll in creating children led to patriarchy.

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