How much should a civilization lie to itself about the nature of human sexuality?
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We evolved in small groups where a few males used to have quite a strong dominance and hold for them most of females... Modern societies don't go well following our evolucionary sexual mindset and some things should be softened to large audience.
Nope. If we had, sexual dimorphism would be much bigger than it is. We evolved mostly to form pair bonds, with some play around the sides.
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Are you familiar with Bernard Chapais's theories about this in Primeval Kinship and his papers since then? One possibility is that there were single-male, multi-female groups between promiscuity and pair bonding, though he considers harems a form of pair bonding.
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That would still have resulted in massive dimorphism, which is not what we see in humans, compared to other polygynous species like gorillas or elephant seals.
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So the strong bottleneck seen in Y chromossome haplogroups during Bronze Age was quite a thing in itself and much disimilar to Paleolithic times, I suppose... Therefore our current society is, in that issue, closer to hunter-gatherers that the agro-pastoralist ones.
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(For fun, not argument)
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