Women Invented Weapons?

Apparently our society is so advanced that we can tell who invented what just by looking at animals. The survival techniques of West African chimpanzees have revealed that the first human weapons may have been developed by women.The use of spears and axes to hunt and kill is commonly thought to have been pioneered among [...]

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I think that this is an amazing observation but I don't think that it rings all that true if we look at modern humans, for comparison. From my observations, men are more gadget oriented & therefore more likely to pick up new things, but it may be that watching women use the sticks for gathering, that they were adapted for hunting.

I do think that both sexes needed to work together to get anywhere & that tools were adapted for many different purposes.

Allan
 
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