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by beetree on 28 October 2013 - 09:10



LOL http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/24/women-men-walking-study/3179369/
As a biologist interested in evolution, Wall-Scheffler has a theory to explain this behavior: it has to do with males in roving hunter-gatherer groups not wanting to push women to walk too fast, lest the females over-exert themselves and harm their fertility.

by Hundmutter on 28 October 2013 - 12:10

And what about those cultures where

some paces behind their


by Two Moons on 28 October 2013 - 12:10

by Mountain Lion on 28 October 2013 - 12:10
Hey, you asked, and I don't lie, so there it is. LOL


by Two Moons on 28 October 2013 - 13:10

by Carlin on 28 October 2013 - 13:10
As a biologist interested in evolution, Wall-Scheffler has a theory to explain this behavior: it has to do with males in roving hunter-gatherer groups not wanting to push women to walk too fast, lest the females over-exert themselves and harm their fertility.
There's merit there, but it would be difficult to prove. What often amuses me most however, is the contradiction between what the evolutionary evidence sometimes indicates, and what evolutions biggest proponents are willing to except. Take Darwinism, for example. All fine and dandy until we start to discuss Social Darwinism; a convenient disconnect.
One of my favorite evolutionary studies is one which sheds light on the gender discrimination of depression. According to evolutionary psychologists, depression in women very well may have developed as a form of social currency.
by beetree on 28 October 2013 - 13:10

by Carlin on 28 October 2013 - 13:10

by Two Moons on 28 October 2013 - 13:10

by Mountain Lion on 28 October 2013 - 13:10
I would think harming her fertility was what most males had in mind. LOL
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