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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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