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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (9 children)

As an aside on that kind of tribalism.

There is a valley on Africa where scientists have discovered the remains of multiple neolithic tribes inhabiting it long term in caves. The men all have markers indicating that they grew up in the valley.

All of the adult women do not.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Pretty cool to see cultural anti-incest policies in action.

Less cool that the women are, obviously, the ones expected to leave their homes.

I always think about these things when people act like primitivism is some coherent ideology to increase equality.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (7 children)

There's also the implication that they send the native women away

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Yes. Notably, it seems like the same behaviours exist in Bonobos and in Chimpanzees.

In bonobos it is the young males that leave/are exiled from the group, and in Chimpanzees it is the young females.

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