You don’t have a male or female brain

Re:You don’t have a male or female brain by TheOtherHobbes on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:33AM (#30312678)

If it's biological, explain what possible evolutionary advantage being a reclusive puzzle-solving obsessive would have offered in a pre-technological culture - i.e. most of human history.

For most of human history and for most humans there was nothing to study, invent, or analyse. Certainly not anything that would take years of reclusive effort.

At the absolute really-pushing-it earliest, academics and abstraction only became a thing in the late Stone Age - which is hundreds of thousands of years after modern humans emerged.

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Re:You don’t have a male or female brain by prirun on Saturday February 12, 2022 @09:05AM (#30312904)

> If it's biological, explain what possible evolutionary advantage being a reclusive puzzle-solving obsessive would have offered in a pre-technological culture - i.e. most of human history.

It would make a better hunter?

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Re:You don’t have a male or female brain by yucky on Saturday February 12, 2022 @04:53PM (#30316903)

Before guns, working out a strategy to hunt big game would take an obsessive approach to details and A/B testing, with potential death on the line.

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