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Women on the move

Nature Genetics volume 20, pages 219–220 (1998)Cite this article

When I was a student, anthropology was a largely male-dominated discipline and the role of females was given short shrift. We learned all about 'Man the Hunter'—although an emphasis on 'Woman the Gatherer' would more accurately indicate who really brings home the bacon in most traditional hunting-gathering societies1—and about alpha males in non-human primates, although females also have a say in who fathers their offspring2. Even the titles of the books we read, such as Mankind Evolving, Mankind in the Making, Men of the Earth and The Ascent of Man, emphasize the male sex, a trend which has not completely disappeared3, more's the pity.

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