Feminism Doomed the Caveman

It looks like the cavegals should have stayed home and cooked the beasts and cleaned the cave rather than go hunting with the guys:

The Neanderthal extinction some 30,000 years ago remains one of the great riddles of evolution, with rival theories blaming everything from genocide committed by "real" humans to prehistoric climate change.

But a recent study introduces another explanation: Stone Age feminism. Among Neanderthals, hunting big beasts was women's work as well as men's, so it's a safe bet that female hunters got stomped, gored, and worse with appalling frequency. And a high casualty rate among fertile women - the vital "reproductive core" of a tiny population - could well have meant demographic disaster for a species already struggling to survive among monster bears, yellow-fanged hyenas, and cunning Homo sapien newcomers.

The probably had both parents working because they were trying to keep up with the Ugga's.



"Ugga got nice rock, why we not have nice rock?"



Some things never change.