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Re:Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) by contingencies on Friday August 05, 2016 @12:25AM (#12230031)
Non-patriarchal != matriarchal. (I had originally written matriarchal but changed the comment quickly as I realised had conflated multiple possible prior scenarios)

In any event, humans are a known special case for lots of other stuff, as we have advanced cognitive function and predispositions to social reasoning and inter-generational cultural preservation, so to my mind your statistical argument is obtuse at best.

Re:Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) by will_brown on Friday August 05, 2016 @01:13AM (#12230192)
>so to my mind your statistical argument is obtuse at best.

Well I included statistics, but as I note gender domination is evolutionary in mammals. Evolutionary arguments != statistical arguments.

>Non-patriarchal != matriarchal

Correct me if I am wrong, because I did interpret non-patriarchal to mean matriarchal, so I am left assuming what you meant by non-patriarchal is no gender domination pre-agriculture, is that right? If not, what does that mean, I tried googling it and I get the wiki article for matriarchy.

If you meant no gender domination, that would make humans the only mammal to evolve to not have a gender dominate hierarchy. Moreover, since other mammals all evolved to have gender dominated hierarchies and since they don't have the fancy cognitive functions we have, wouldn't it be safe to say like all other mammals, we evolved and developed a gender dominate social structure first and then higher brain functions? Moreover, if primates evolved to have gender dominated hierarchies and modern humans have gender dominate hierarchies (even with our superior brains), then why would we not have had a gender dominate hierarchy until the advent of agriculture?