Racism evolves and is therefore a very difficult problem to solve. "The Patriarchy" is a different matter. It can't easily evolve. A 'patriarchal' system that serves the lineage can evolve. Paternalism can too. But a conspiracy of men against women is not evolutionarily viable.
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Hmm.. pushing thought frontier .. 1/3. Haig in 2002 book speculated parental genomic conflict in fetuses difficult to evolve in non-placental mammals. Placenta creates means for paternal genomic imprinting to conflict over resource allocations in maternal-fetal conflict.
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2/3. ~Could~ lead to evo of shared-father (full-sib) kin recognition. (Me now) So natal bands of male kin, fighting as groups --> patriarchy? By subverting Rawlsian veil over autosomal genes 50% likely in any generation to be in either male or female body, by imprinting? idk.
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