Ehrenreich: Sexual dimorphism - Postmodernisme premillénaire CXXIII

Ehrenreich skriver:

[T]he only cure for bad science is more science, and the story of human evolution has been evolving pretty rapidly itself. There were always plenty of prima facie reasons to doubt the Mr. and Mrs. Man-the-Hunter version of our collective biography, such as little matter of size, or, in sci­encespeak, “sexual dimorphism.” If men and women evolved so differently, then why aren't men a whole lot bigger than they are? In fact, human display a smaller size disparity between the sexes than do many of our ape cousins[den jämlika apan]-suggesting (though not proving) that early men and women sometimes had overlapping job descriptions, like having to drive off the leopards. And speaking of Paleolithic predators, wouldn't it be at least unwise for the guys to go off hunting, leaving the supposedly weak and dependent women and children to fend for them­selves at base camp? --- In what other carnivorous species is only one sex an actual predator?1)

Fotnot:

1) Ehrenreich, “The real truth about the female body”, i Time, March 15, 1999:47.

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