[ViscountPenguin]

There's some interesting research on the effect of T in mice which has been challenging traditional assumptions of its role in males: https://news.emory.edu/stories/2022/08/esc_testosterone_anim...

It's worth noting though that the actions of the "stereotypical man" are strongly culturally informed, and not neccessarily indicative of whatever evolutionary pressures would've wired males brains whatever way they're wired for fatherhood. I don't think we have much direct evidence of ancient female and male parent roles (apart from being able to infer the obvious, like that females would've breastfed).

[tehjoker]

A lot of ancient cultures were collectivist if small. In some cases, matriarchal, in some cases, sex was "free" because the village owned the kids, and so establishing paternity was not as important because the burden was shared.

[cineticdaffodil]

How do youvarrive at matruarchal while most male mammals display hormonal harem bloat? If nature blows you up into body building brute once you have a family, does that not indicate a clear pyramid of force and a violence monopoly?

PS: prediction power and testable.. could be science where it not for utopist airsuperiority

[watwut]

Males looking like body builders is not something observed in any non western nom modern culture.

Tribes tend to have thin men. They dont have big bulky muscles. Agricultural subsistence cultures tend to have thin men.

They can be violent all the same. Just that bulky look is modern male aesthetic.

[Throaway199999]

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