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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by ernst_klim on Monday June 26, 2023 @04:17AM (#36477091)
> The simple truth is that men handled the vast majority of situations where combat was required

I think you greatly overestimate how much combat people faced during prehistoric times. Population was distributed sparsely, most food was gathered, not hunted, and was abundant, and you don't fight predators to scare them off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_warfare#Paleolithi...

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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by yarg on Monday June 26, 2023 @04:29AM (#36477177)
And I think that you're severely underestimating the impact of infrequent existential threats, and how that interplays with slight improvements to fitness compounded over hundreds of thousands of years.

In fact, I'm damned near certain of it.

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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by hef19898 on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:25AM (#36477888)
The most existential threat in pre-industrial times was a bad harvest. It meant starvation. That men used their de-facto monopoly on violence to start dominating their communities is a different story.
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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by yarg on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:45AM (#36478029)
So agriculture? 10,000 years ago.

~Modern humans have been around 30 times longer than that.

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