"women created patriarchy" is evolutionary psychology's extreme over-emphasis on mate choice taken to its Galaxy Brain conclusion. It is a fiction that can be maintained only by people who do not read ethnography and have no interest in doing so. See my pinned thread if skepticalhttps://twitter.com/feminiscience/status/1104421466584563713 …
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Ok fair, though do you think the pattern of arranged marriages and restricted female choice found by Apostolou (2007) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237929517_Sexual_Selection_Under_Parental_Choice_The_Role_of_Parents_in_the_Evolution_of_Human_Mating … and also discussed here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0019066 … conflict meaningfully with your assessment?pic.twitter.com/GQsC9okUPU
Admittedly, it would be nice if somebody other than just Apostolou did serious & sustained work on the influence of parental v. individual mate choice in human small-scale societies and prehistory.
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I am working on something related to this in hunter-gatherer societies (which is also part of why I'm very confident in my assessment, because I've spent the last month or so pouring over ethnographies all day).
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